# 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:** 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:** [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… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frozen-tier/299368)._