Pinecone has introduced an early access "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) offering for its vector database on AWS, allowing users to deploy a privately managed Pinecone region within their own cloud account. This solution combines the security and control of a self-hosted setup with the ease of a fully managed SaaS product, ensuring data sovereignty by keeping data stored and processed exclusively within the user's cloud account. Pinecone is designed to simplify AI application development by handling operational tasks like deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and updates, freeing engineers from infrastructure management. The BYOC model offers flexibility, enabling companies to meet strict data sovereignty and compliance requirements, with enterprise-grade access controls and the ability to deploy in any chosen AWS region. The database architecture consists of a Control Plane for managing index lifecycles and a Data Plane for storing and processing records, with security measures such as role-based access control and customer-controlled VPNs. Despite the distributed setup, Pinecone maintains communication with its global control plane to ensure service reliability and ongoing management.