The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to immediate replication for protected dedicated chunk. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating an encoded portion of data of a dedicated chunk in a node device of a first group of node devices in a first zone of a distributed storage system. The method further comprises, in immediate response to the generating, transferring the encoded portion of data of the dedicated chunk from the node device of the first group of node devices in the first zone of the distributed storage system to a second zone of the distributed storage system. The method further comprises dividing, by the system, the encoded portion of data in the second zone across second node devices.