diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/ClusterModule.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/ClusterModule.java
index 8a4e17e5c0dc3..17e24a5b6220e 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/ClusterModule.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/ClusterModule.java
@@ -150,7 +150,13 @@ public ClusterModule(
         this.shardsAllocator = createShardsAllocator(settings, clusterService.getClusterSettings(), clusterPlugins);
         this.clusterService = clusterService;
         this.indexNameExpressionResolver = new IndexNameExpressionResolver(threadContext);
-        this.allocationService = new AllocationService(allocationDeciders, shardsAllocator, clusterInfoService, snapshotsInfoService);
+        this.allocationService = new AllocationService(
+            allocationDeciders,
+            shardsAllocator,
+            clusterInfoService,
+            snapshotsInfoService,
+            settings
+        );
     }
 
     public static List<Entry> getNamedWriteables() {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/AllocationService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/AllocationService.java
index 5169e63aeb9a5..8c6820c0825e1 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/AllocationService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/AllocationService.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.message.ParameterizedMessage;
+import org.opensearch.Version;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.ClusterInfoService;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.ClusterState;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.RestoreInProgress;
@@ -55,13 +56,16 @@
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.decider.AllocationDeciders;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.decider.Decision;
 import org.opensearch.common.collect.ImmutableOpenMap;
+import org.opensearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.opensearch.gateway.GatewayAllocator;
 import org.opensearch.gateway.PriorityComparator;
+import org.opensearch.gateway.ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator;
 import org.opensearch.snapshots.SnapshotsInfoService;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@
 import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
 import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
 import static org.opensearch.cluster.routing.UnassignedInfo.INDEX_DELAYED_NODE_LEFT_TIMEOUT_SETTING;
+import static org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.ExistingShardsAllocator.EXISTING_SHARDS_ALLOCATOR_BATCH_MODE;
 
 /**
  * This service manages the node allocation of a cluster. For this reason the
@@ -87,6 +92,7 @@ public class AllocationService {
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(AllocationService.class);
 
     private final AllocationDeciders allocationDeciders;
+    private Settings settings;
     private Map<String, ExistingShardsAllocator> existingShardsAllocators;
     private final ShardsAllocator shardsAllocator;
     private final ClusterInfoService clusterInfoService;
@@ -109,11 +115,23 @@ public AllocationService(
         ShardsAllocator shardsAllocator,
         ClusterInfoService clusterInfoService,
         SnapshotsInfoService snapshotsInfoService
+    ) {
+        this(allocationDeciders, shardsAllocator, clusterInfoService, snapshotsInfoService, Settings.EMPTY);
+    }
+
+    public AllocationService(
+        AllocationDeciders allocationDeciders,
+        ShardsAllocator shardsAllocator,
+        ClusterInfoService clusterInfoService,
+        SnapshotsInfoService snapshotsInfoService,
+        Settings settings
+
     ) {
         this.allocationDeciders = allocationDeciders;
         this.shardsAllocator = shardsAllocator;
         this.clusterInfoService = clusterInfoService;
         this.snapshotsInfoService = snapshotsInfoService;
+        this.settings = settings;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -548,6 +566,24 @@ private void allocateExistingUnassignedShards(RoutingAllocation allocation) {
             existingShardsAllocator.beforeAllocation(allocation);
         }
 
+        /*
+         Use batch mode if enabled and there is no custom allocator set for Allocation service
+         */
+        Boolean batchModeEnabled = EXISTING_SHARDS_ALLOCATOR_BATCH_MODE.get(settings);
+        if (batchModeEnabled && allocation.nodes().getMinNodeVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_3_0_0) && existingShardsAllocators.size() == 2) {
+            /*
+             If we do not have any custom allocator set then we will be using ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator
+             Currently AllocationService will not run any custom Allocator that implements allocateAllUnassignedShards
+             */
+            ExistingShardsAllocator allocator = existingShardsAllocators.get(ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator.ALLOCATOR_NAME);
+            allocator.allocateAllUnassignedShards(allocation, true);
+            allocator.afterPrimariesBeforeReplicas(allocation);
+            // Replicas Assignment
+            allocator.allocateAllUnassignedShards(allocation, false);
+            return;
+        }
+        logger.warn("Falling back to single shard assignment since batch mode disable or multiple custom allocators set");
+
         final RoutingNodes.UnassignedShards.UnassignedIterator primaryIterator = allocation.routingNodes().unassigned().iterator();
         while (primaryIterator.hasNext()) {
             final ShardRouting shardRouting = primaryIterator.next();
@@ -608,9 +644,9 @@ private void applyStartedShards(RoutingAllocation routingAllocation, List<ShardR
                 : "shard started for unknown index (shard entry: " + startedShard + ")";
             assert startedShard == routingNodes.getByAllocationId(startedShard.shardId(), startedShard.allocationId().getId())
                 : "shard routing to start does not exist in routing table, expected: "
-                    + startedShard
-                    + " but was: "
-                    + routingNodes.getByAllocationId(startedShard.shardId(), startedShard.allocationId().getId());
+                + startedShard
+                + " but was: "
+                + routingNodes.getByAllocationId(startedShard.shardId(), startedShard.allocationId().getId());
 
             routingNodes.startShard(logger, startedShard, routingAllocation.changes());
         }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/ExistingShardsAllocator.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/ExistingShardsAllocator.java
index f1889cdf780d4..fb2a37237f8b6 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/ExistingShardsAllocator.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/cluster/routing/allocation/ExistingShardsAllocator.java
@@ -39,12 +39,13 @@
 import org.opensearch.common.Nullable;
 import org.opensearch.common.settings.Setting;
 import org.opensearch.gateway.GatewayAllocator;
+import org.opensearch.gateway.ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
  * Searches for, and allocates, shards for which there is an existing on-disk copy somewhere in the cluster. The default implementation is
- * {@link GatewayAllocator}, but plugins can supply their own implementations too.
+ * {@link GatewayAllocator} and {@link ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator}, but plugins can supply their own implementations too.
  *
  * @opensearch.internal
  */
@@ -60,6 +61,26 @@ public interface ExistingShardsAllocator {
         Setting.Property.PrivateIndex
     );
 
+    /**
+     * Boolean setting to enable/disable batch allocation of unassigned shards already existing on disk.
+     * This will allow sending all Unassigned Shards to the ExistingShard Allocator to  make decision to allocate
+     * in one or more go.
+     *
+     * Enable this setting if your ExistingShardAllocator is implementing the
+     * {@link ExistingShardsAllocator#allocateAllUnassignedShards(RoutingAllocation, boolean)} method.
+     * The default implementation of this method is not optimized and assigns shards one by one.
+     *
+     * If no plugin overrides {@link ExistingShardsAllocator} then default implementation will be use for it , i.e,
+     * {@link ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator}.
+     *
+     * This setting is experimental at this point.
+     */
+    Setting<Boolean> EXISTING_SHARDS_ALLOCATOR_BATCH_MODE = Setting.boolSetting(
+        "cluster.allocator.existing_shards_allocator.batch_enabled",
+        false,
+        Setting.Property.NodeScope
+    );
+
     /**
      * Called before starting a round of allocation, allowing the allocator to invalidate some caches if appropriate.
      */
@@ -80,6 +101,23 @@ void allocateUnassigned(
         UnassignedAllocationHandler unassignedAllocationHandler
     );
 
+    /**
+     * Allocate all unassigned shards in the given {@link RoutingAllocation} for which this {@link ExistingShardsAllocator} is responsible.
+     * Default implementation calls {@link #allocateUnassigned(ShardRouting, RoutingAllocation, UnassignedAllocationHandler)} for each Unassigned shard
+     * and is kept here for backward compatibility.
+     *
+     * Allocation service will currently run the default implementation of it implemented by {@link ShardsBatchGatewayAllocator}
+     */
+    default void allocateAllUnassignedShards(RoutingAllocation allocation, boolean primary) {
+        RoutingNodes.UnassignedShards.UnassignedIterator iterator = allocation.routingNodes().unassigned().iterator();
+        while (iterator.hasNext()) {
+            ShardRouting shardRouting = iterator.next();
+            if (shardRouting.primary() == primary) {
+                allocateUnassigned(shardRouting, allocation, iterator);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns an explanation for a single unassigned shard.
      */
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
index 208a358d38395..eadf0abaee92b 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 import org.opensearch.cluster.metadata.Metadata;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.OperationRouting;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.DiskThresholdSettings;
+import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.ExistingShardsAllocator;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.allocator.BalancedShardsAllocator;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.decider.AwarenessAllocationDecider;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.decider.ClusterRebalanceAllocationDecider;
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ public void apply(Settings value, Settings current, Settings previous) {
                 DanglingIndicesState.AUTO_IMPORT_DANGLING_INDICES_SETTING,
                 EnableAllocationDecider.CLUSTER_ROUTING_ALLOCATION_ENABLE_SETTING,
                 EnableAllocationDecider.CLUSTER_ROUTING_REBALANCE_ENABLE_SETTING,
+                ExistingShardsAllocator.EXISTING_SHARDS_ALLOCATOR_BATCH_MODE_ENABLED,
                 FilterAllocationDecider.CLUSTER_ROUTING_INCLUDE_GROUP_SETTING,
                 FilterAllocationDecider.CLUSTER_ROUTING_EXCLUDE_GROUP_SETTING,
                 FilterAllocationDecider.CLUSTER_ROUTING_REQUIRE_GROUP_SETTING,