# Activated Warm Tier Not Able To Shut it Down
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activated-warm-tier-not-able-to-shut-it-down/341102
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 18, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activated-warm-tier-not-able-to-shut-it-down/341102 "2023-08-18T14:14:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Akaash\_Mukherjee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akaash_Mukherjee)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activated-warm-tier-not-able-to-shut-it-down/341102/1 "2023-08-18T14:14:12Z")
Hi,
I decided to experiment with the warm data tier instance in ES. It seems to have moved data on to this tier (to be expected). But now I can't remove this instance. From what I've seen, this is a solution:
> **[Disable an Elasticsearch data tier | Elasticsearch Service Documentation |...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-disable-data-tier.html)**
But it seems pretty complicated.
From what I understand creating a warm data tier is easy and removing it is difficult. Is that correct?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activated-warm-tier-not-able-to-shut-it-down/341102/2 "2023-09-15T14:14:33Z")
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