How to rename index in Azure Search

Question

According to our business logic every night web job deletes index and creates new one and populates it. But lately we've noticed that populating index takes about one hour. So during this time we don't have any working index in production. So currently we are thinking over the following changes:

Name of our production index is 'prodindex'. We want firstly to create index with name 'prodindex1', populate it and if everything is ok delete index 'prodindex' and rename index 'prodindex1' to 'prodindex'.

But now i facet problem that i can't rename index. So is it possible in Azure Search to rename index?

Answer 1

It's not possible to rename an index. Feel free to add a suggestion on Azure Search UserVoice site.