# Frozen Tier **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 10, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368 "2022-03-10T20:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tmahany419](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tmahany419/32/102898_2.png) [@tmahany419](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tmahany419)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368/1 "2022-03-10T20:57:36Z")
What's the difference between searchable snapshots and the frozen tier? Reading the documentation is looks like Frozen tier uses searchable snapshots and reading the searchable snapshot documentation it looks like the only place its used is in the frozen/cold tiers. Frozen tier is listed under the basic license and searchable snapshots requires the enterprise license. What do you get from the searchable snapshots licensed feature? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368/2 "2022-03-11T04:14:08Z")
Take a look at this... perhaps it will help > [@Frozen Indices Deprecation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-indices-deprecation/286288/2): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![tmahany419](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tmahany419/32/102898_2.png) [@tmahany419](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tmahany419)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368/3 "2022-03-29T20:02:15Z")
Stephen, thanks for the clarification about new versus deprecated frozen tiers. It is still unclear to me the difference between the new frozen tier using searchable snapshots included with basic license and searchable snapshots included with the enterprise license. If you have the enterprise license does that mean you can configure a search snapshot on indices on other tiers? ---
**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:** [March 29, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368/4 "2022-03-29T20:30:15Z")
There is no searchable snapshots with the basic tier. Therefore, there is no Frozen with searchable snapshots in the basic tier. Searchable snapshots only exist in the enterprise here at this time. The only Frozen that existed in the basic tier is the deprecated one and it did not use searchable snapshots. ---
**Author:** ![tmahany419](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tmahany419/32/102898_2.png) [@tmahany419](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tmahany419)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368/5 "2022-03-29T20:49:39Z")
Thanks for clearing that up, I will close this topic. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368/6 "2022-04-26T20:50:16Z")
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