stephenb
August 2, 2025, 1:54pm
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Hi @Tal_Hayun Welcome to the community.
As @leandrojmp said, in short no the frozen / searchable snapshots which are highly useful are here to stay.
The old Frozen indices which were in essence an old attempt for denser storage have been deprecated.
Here is some details I wrote up on this confusing terminology a while back
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…