diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e0b6836d920cd..e42f44344668c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - [Streaming Indexing] Introduce new experimental server HTTP transport based on Netty 4 and Project Reactor (Reactor Netty) ([#9672](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/9672))
 - Add template snippets support for field and target_field in KV ingest processor ([#10040](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/10040))
 - Allowing pipeline processors to access index mapping info by passing ingest service ref as part of the processor factory parameters ([#10307](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/10307))
+- Allow changing number of replicas of searchable snapshot index ([#11317](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/11317))
 
 ### Dependencies
 - Bump `com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos` from 2.10.0 to 2.25.1 ([#10208](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/10208), [#10298](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/10298))
diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/snapshots/SearchableSnapshotIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/snapshots/SearchableSnapshotIT.java
index 4478a3432e519..9a92ddc81852a 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/snapshots/SearchableSnapshotIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/snapshots/SearchableSnapshotIT.java
@@ -458,7 +458,9 @@ private void testUpdateIndexSettingsOnlyNotAllowedSettings(String index) {
 
     private void testUpdateIndexSettingsOnlyAllowedSettings(String index) {
         final UpdateSettingsRequestBuilder builder = client().admin().indices().prepareUpdateSettings(index);
-        builder.setSettings(Map.of("index.max_result_window", 1000, "index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.warn", "10s"));
+        builder.setSettings(
+            Map.of("index.max_result_window", 1000, "index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.warn", "10s", "index.number_of_replicas", 0)
+        );
         AcknowledgedResponse settingsResponse = builder.execute().actionGet();
         assertThat(settingsResponse, notNullValue());
     }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/settings/put/TransportUpdateSettingsAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/settings/put/TransportUpdateSettingsAction.java
index 1c57dc27df8c6..14c985f1d3427 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/settings/put/TransportUpdateSettingsAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/settings/put/TransportUpdateSettingsAction.java
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 import org.opensearch.transport.TransportService;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
@@ -77,7 +78,8 @@ public class TransportUpdateSettingsAction extends TransportClusterManagerNodeAc
         "index.max_script_fields",
         "index.max_terms_count",
         "index.max_regex_length",
-        "index.highlight.max_analyzed_offset"
+        "index.highlight.max_analyzed_offset",
+        "index.number_of_replicas"
     );
 
     private final static String[] ALLOWLIST_REMOTE_SNAPSHOT_SETTINGS_PREFIXES = { "index.search.slowlog" };
@@ -145,10 +147,10 @@ protected ClusterBlockException checkBlock(UpdateSettingsRequest request, Cluste
             }
         }
 
+        final String[] requestIndexNames = Arrays.stream(requestIndices).map(Index::getName).toArray(String[]::new);
         return allowSearchableSnapshotSettingsUpdate
             ? null
-            : state.blocks()
-                .indicesBlockedException(ClusterBlockLevel.METADATA_WRITE, indexNameExpressionResolver.concreteIndexNames(state, request));
+            : state.blocks().indicesBlockedException(ClusterBlockLevel.METADATA_WRITE, requestIndexNames);
     }
 
     @Override