Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes: Now Generally Available

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This post announces the General Availability (GA) of Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN). It details the benefits of DRN for sustained, high-volume vector workloads, including lower and more predictable costs, consistent low-latency and high throughput via dedicated provisioned nodes with a warm data path, and scalable throughput without rate limits. It highlights cost savings on real production workloads (77-97% reduction) and explains the scaling dimensions (replicas for QPS, shards for storage). The post also mentions four new GA features for deeper control and observability, and provides guidance on choosing between DRN and On-Demand services based on workload characteristics.