A leader control plane node of a set of control plane nodes of a node cluster, may receive a request to store data in a distributed storage system including a set of access manager nodes. The leader control plane node may generate cache data identifying an instruction from the leader control plane node to one or more access manager nodes managed by the leader control plane node of the plurality of access manager nodes, the instruction instructing the one or more access manager nodes to store the data indicated in the request. The leader control plane node may then transmit a replication instruction to one or more follower control plane nodes of the plurality of control plane nodes to replicate the cache data in a respective cache of the one or more follower control plane nodes.