diff --git a/src/main/resources/suggest_indices/suggest_analyzer.json b/src/main/resources/suggest_indices/suggest_analyzer.json
index 163fd78ce..b90ee6e6d 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/suggest_indices/suggest_analyzer.json
+++ b/src/main/resources/suggest_indices/suggest_analyzer.json
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 {
   "index": {
     "refresh_interval": "1s",
-    "number_of_shards": 5,
-    "number_of_replicas": 0
+    "number_of_shards": 1,
+    "number_of_replicas": 0,
+    "auto_expand_replicas": "0-1"
   },
   "analysis" : {
     "tokenizer" : {