Pinecone BYOC: Pinecone in your AWS, GCP, or Azure account, no vendor access

Pinecone's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) offers a solution for deploying AI features into production without compromising security by allowing enterprises to run Pinecone's data plane inside their own AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts, ensuring zero vendor access to their cloud environments. This architecture separates the control plane, managed by Pinecone, from the data plane, hosted by the user, which helps maintain security standards while keeping Pinecone's management tools for index lifecycle and operations intact. BYOC eliminates the need for SSH, VPN, or inbound network access to the user's infrastructure, allowing operations to be executed within the cluster through a pull-based model, ensuring both security and operational efficiency. The deployment provides flexibility in network connectivity, offering either public access or private links, and allows monitoring through operational metrics and traces without exposing sensitive data. Available in public preview for enterprise users, BYOC supports a split control/data plane architecture while maintaining operational consistency and governance, making it a viable option for organizations aiming to meet strict security requirements without transitioning to a fully self-hosted model.