# Read Elastic snapshot data in azure blob storage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-elastic-snapshot-data-in-azure-blob-storage/282082>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 20, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-elastic-snapshot-data-in-azure-blob-storage/282082 "2021-08-20T13:27:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![shadu88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@shadu88](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shadu88)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-elastic-snapshot-data-in-azure-blob-storage/282082/1 "2021-08-20T13:27:46Z")

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Hello Dear Elks,

Hope you are doing good!!  
I have set a ILM policy to store logs to azure blob storage older than 30 days. Now how can I enable searching/reading logs in blob storage? I see the data in blob is not in readable format.

Kindly advice.

Thank you in advance!!

Regards,  
Shadab

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**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:** [August 20, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-elastic-snapshot-data-in-azure-blob-storage/282082/2 "2021-08-20T13:36:21Z")

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Hi @shadu88

This is exactly what our new frozen tier is for take a look at this blog.

This works on his Azure blob storage as well.

It is a commercial license feature, and because of the cheap blob storage it's a very cost-effective strategy.

> **[Directly search S3 with the new frozen tier](https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-elasticsearch-frozen-tier-searchbox-on-s3)**
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-elastic-snapshot-data-in-azure-blob-storage/282082/3 "2021-09-17T13:36:46Z")

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