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Searchable snapshots let you use snapshots to search infrequently accessed and read-only data in a very cost-effective fashion. The frozen data tier uses searchable snapshots to reduce your storage and operating costs by storing the data on an object store such as Dell ECS.
Read more about searchable snapshots on the Elastic Site.