diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 96af8741a0de9..441de802f6ea8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - Removing the vec file extension from INDEX_STORE_HYBRID_NIO_EXTENSIONS, to ensure the no performance degradation for vector search via Lucene Engine.([#9528](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9528)))
 - Separate request-based and settings-based concurrent segment search controls and introduce AggregatorFactory method to determine concurrent search support ([#9469](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9469))
 - [Remote Store] Rate limiter integration for remote store uploads and downloads([#9448](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9448/))
+- [Remote Store] Implicitly use replication type SEGMENT for remote store clusters ([#9264](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9264))
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreBaseIntegTestCase.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreBaseIntegTestCase.java
index 90efafe9423c6..15d4b8d1de58a 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreBaseIntegTestCase.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreBaseIntegTestCase.java
@@ -169,12 +169,16 @@ public static Settings remoteStoreClusterSettings(
     }
 
     public static Settings remoteStoreClusterSettings(String segmentRepoName, String translogRepoName) {
-        return Settings.builder()
-            .put(CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.getKey(), ReplicationType.SEGMENT)
+        Settings.Builder settingsBuilder = Settings.builder()
             .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED_SETTING.getKey(), true)
             .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_SEGMENT_STORE_REPOSITORY_SETTING.getKey(), segmentRepoName)
-            .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_REPOSITORY_SETTING.getKey(), translogRepoName)
-            .build();
+            .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_REPOSITORY_SETTING.getKey(), translogRepoName);
+
+        if (randomBoolean()) {
+            settingsBuilder.put(CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.getKey(), ReplicationType.SEGMENT);
+        }
+
+        return settingsBuilder.build();
     }
 
     private Settings defaultIndexSettings() {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java
index ec63f762bea9f..fd7fe29442eb2 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexService.java
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
 import org.opensearch.indices.InvalidIndexNameException;
 import org.opensearch.indices.ShardLimitValidator;
 import org.opensearch.indices.SystemIndices;
+import org.opensearch.indices.replication.common.ReplicationType;
 import org.opensearch.threadpool.ThreadPool;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -932,15 +933,15 @@ static Settings aggregateIndexSettings(
      * @param clusterSettings cluster level settings
      */
     private static void updateReplicationStrategy(Settings.Builder settingsBuilder, Settings requestSettings, Settings clusterSettings) {
-        if (CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.exists(clusterSettings) && INDEX_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.exists(requestSettings) == false) {
-            settingsBuilder.put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.get(clusterSettings));
-            return;
-        }
-        if (INDEX_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.exists(requestSettings) == true) {
+        if (INDEX_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.exists(requestSettings)) {
             settingsBuilder.put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, INDEX_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.get(requestSettings));
-            return;
+        } else if (CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.exists(clusterSettings)) {
+            settingsBuilder.put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.get(clusterSettings));
+        } else if (CLUSTER_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED_SETTING.get(clusterSettings)) {
+            settingsBuilder.put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, ReplicationType.SEGMENT);
+        } else {
+            settingsBuilder.put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.getDefault(clusterSettings));
         }
-        settingsBuilder.put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.getDefault(clusterSettings));
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexServiceTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexServiceTests.java
index a9f3e97e64e39..ad5fbb18138b3 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexServiceTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/metadata/MetadataCreateIndexServiceTests.java
@@ -1245,6 +1245,38 @@ public void testRemoteStoreNoUserOverrideExceptReplicationTypeSegmentIndexSettin
         );
     }
 
+    public void testRemoteStoreImplicitOverrideReplicationTypeToSegmentForRemoteStore() {
+        Settings settings = Settings.builder()
+            .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED_SETTING.getKey(), true)
+            .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_SEGMENT_STORE_REPOSITORY_SETTING.getKey(), "my-segment-repo-1")
+            .put(CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_REPOSITORY_SETTING.getKey(), "my-translog-repo-1")
+            .build();
+        FeatureFlagSetter.set(FeatureFlags.REMOTE_STORE);
+
+        request = new CreateIndexClusterStateUpdateRequest("create index", "test", "test");
+        final Settings.Builder requestSettings = Settings.builder();
+        request.settings(requestSettings.build());
+        Settings indexSettings = aggregateIndexSettings(
+            ClusterState.EMPTY_STATE,
+            request,
+            Settings.EMPTY,
+            null,
+            settings,
+            IndexScopedSettings.DEFAULT_SCOPED_SETTINGS,
+            randomShardLimitService(),
+            Collections.emptySet(),
+            clusterSettings
+        );
+        verifyRemoteStoreIndexSettings(
+            indexSettings,
+            "true",
+            "my-segment-repo-1",
+            "my-translog-repo-1",
+            ReplicationType.SEGMENT.toString(),
+            IndexSettings.DEFAULT_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_BUFFER_INTERVAL
+        );
+    }
+
     public void testRemoteStoreNoUserOverrideIndexSettings() {
         Settings settings = Settings.builder()
             .put(CLUSTER_REPLICATION_TYPE_SETTING.getKey(), ReplicationType.SEGMENT)