# Move to production

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:::card{title="Production checklist" href="/guides/move-to-production-production-checklist"}
Prepare Pinecone indexes for production with best practices for project structure, security, scaling, API keys, and reliability across your workloads.
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:::card{title="Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)" href="/guides/move-to-production-bring-your-own-cloud"}
Deploy Pinecone BYOC in your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account for data sovereignty, network isolation, and regional data residency requirements.
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:::card{title="Error handling" href="/guides/move-to-production-error-handling"}
Handle Pinecone API errors with retry logic, exponential backoff, and best practices for 4xx client errors, 5xx server errors, and rate limit responses.
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:::card{title="Monitor performance" href="/guides/move-to-production-monitoring"}
Monitor Pinecone index performance metrics (query latency, throughput, and errors) in the Pinecone console or via Prometheus and Datadog.
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:::card{title="CI/CD with Pinecone Local and GitHub Actions" href="/guides/move-to-production-automated-testing"}
Build a GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow with Pinecone Local to run automated integration tests against an in-memory emulator without touching production.
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## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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