# Frozen Indices Deprecation **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 8, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-indices-deprecation/286288 "2021-10-08T23:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-indices-deprecation/286288/2 "2021-10-09T00:06:50Z")
Hi @vthacker Welcome to the Community. First I want to apologize for the confusion ... the Term "Frozen" has 2 meanings, the old meaning is going away. 1st The " **old/deprecated**" Frozen Indices which is now deprecated, was basically a method to minimize the heap space used by indices that were rarely accessed but still resided on local disk. Put that one out of your mind. Somewhat unfortunately we used the same term to apply to the New Frozen Tier (I think it is what we and our customers really wanted all along) The " **new**" Frozen Tier is what you want to focus on which uses the Capability of Searchable Snapshot to allow searching vast amount of Elasticsearch data that resides as snapshots on cheap Objects Stores such as S3. This is the one you want to pay attention to. That is the one on the webinar that you watched. Here is another article on it: > **[Directly search S3 with the new frozen tier](https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-elasticsearch-frozen-tier-searchbox-on-s3)** > > In 7.12, we’re thrilled to be releasing the technical preview of the frozen tier, a feature that allows you to search object stores like S3 directly so you can store and search an unlimited amount of data at the lowest cost possible. Hope that helps... You're not the first one (and probably not the last) to be a bit unclear on this. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-indices-deprecation/286288)._