Pinecone just wiped every free user account (by accident)

Just a reminder to not store all your expensive eggs (embeddings) in one basket! Bad mistake on my part.

Something to be said for Pinecone on this... if your core business is to be the "production-grade hosted vector DB", probably best to reallocate some of your R&D budget to implementing basic controls that prevent someone running a script that can wipe the entire production DB. Undermines a lot of investment they've made into their reputation and brand.

https://community.pinecone.io/t/did-anyone-else-just-have-their-index-deleted-due-to-inactivity/704

https://community.pinecone.io/t/march-1st-incident-that-affected-indexes-on-the-starter-free-plan/724/2