diff --git a/MaxText/configs/base.yml b/MaxText/configs/base.yml
index fdb99197f..5353686b6 100644
--- a/MaxText/configs/base.yml
+++ b/MaxText/configs/base.yml
@@ -208,6 +208,12 @@ local_checkpoint_directory: ""
 # It should be a positive number when and only when `enable_emergency_checkpoint` is True.
 local_checkpoint_period: 0
 
+# Whether or not to use emergency checkpoint with the replicator service.
+use_replicator_service: False
+
+# The interval to backup local checkpoints to the persistent storage.
+replicator_backup_interval_minutes: 0
+
 # Jax cache directory
 jax_cache_dir: "~/jax_cache"
 
diff --git a/MaxText/max_utils.py b/MaxText/max_utils.py
index 40fb8bbbb..550d22bf3 100644
--- a/MaxText/max_utils.py
+++ b/MaxText/max_utils.py
@@ -289,6 +289,34 @@ def initialize_jax_for_tpu_with_emergency_checkpointing(raw_keys):
         " coordinator_address to initialize JAX distributed runtime..."
     )
     jax.distributed.initialize(coordinator_address=coordinator_address, process_id=int(process_id))
+    if raw_keys["use_replicator_service"]:
+      REPLICATOR_FILE = "replicator.yaml"
+      TEMP_FILE = REPLICATOR_FILE + ".tmp"
+      replicator_file = epath.Path(raw_keys["local_checkpoint_directory"]) / REPLICATOR_FILE
+      temp_file = epath.Path(raw_keys["local_checkpoint_directory"]) / TEMP_FILE
+      num_slices = get_num_slices(raw_keys)
+      num_nodes = jax.process_count()
+      nodes_per_slice = num_nodes // num_slices
+      max_logging.log(f"num_slices: {num_slices}, num_nodes: {num_nodes}, nodes_per_slice: {nodes_per_slice}")
+      node_rank = jax.process_index()
+      peer_ranks = []
+      for i in range(num_slices):
+        peer = node_rank % nodes_per_slice + i * nodes_per_slice
+        if peer != node_rank:
+          peer_ranks.append(peer)
+      run_name = raw_keys["run_name"]
+      if run_name == "":
+        run_name = os.environ.get("JOBSET_NAME")  # using XPK default
+
+      replicator_yaml = f"""job-name: {run_name}
+      node-rank: {node_rank}
+      nodes: {num_nodes}
+      workers-per-node: 1
+      peer-ranks: {peer_ranks}
+      backup-interval-minutes: {raw_keys["replicator_backup_interval_minutes"]}"""
+
+      temp_file.write_text("\n".join([l.strip() for l in replicator_yaml.split("\n")]))
+      os.rename(temp_file, replicator_file)
   else:
     max_logging.log(
         "Initializing JAX distributed runtime without args when emergency checkpointing is"
@@ -319,6 +347,21 @@ def _retrieve_jax_init_info(raw_keys):
   return "", ""
 
 
+def get_num_slices(raw_keys):
+  """Calculate num_slices based on number of devices."""
+  if raw_keys["hardware"] == "cpu":
+    max_logging.log(" Setting num_slices=1 for CPU hardware type")
+    return 1
+  if int(raw_keys["compile_topology_num_slices"]) > 0:
+    return raw_keys["compile_topology_num_slices"]
+  else:
+    devices = jax.devices()
+    try:
+      return 1 + max(d.slice_index for d in devices)
+    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
+      return 1
+
+
 def is_cpu_backend(raw_keys):
   """Determine whether Maxtext is intended to run on a CPU backend."""
   return raw_keys["hardware"] == "cpu"
diff --git a/MaxText/pyconfig.py b/MaxText/pyconfig.py
index 5adc88199..fa80c9226 100644
--- a/MaxText/pyconfig.py
+++ b/MaxText/pyconfig.py
@@ -105,8 +105,16 @@ def validate_keys(keys):
     assert (
         keys["local_checkpoint_period"] > 0
     ), "A positive local checkpoint period must be specified when using emergency checkpoint"
+    if keys["use_replicator_service"]:
+      assert (
+          keys["replicator_backup_interval_minutes"] > 0
+      ), "Replicator service is enabled, the backup interval minutes must be positive"
   else:
-    max_logging.log("Not using emergency checkpoint, ignoring local_checkpoint_directory and local_checkpoint_period")
+    max_logging.log(
+        "Not using emergency checkpoint, ignoring local_checkpoint_directory, local_checkpoint_period,"
+        " use_replicator_service and replicator_backup_interval_minutes"
+    )
+
   if keys["num_experts"] > 1:
     validate_megablox_parallelism(keys)
 
@@ -388,7 +396,7 @@ def user_init(raw_keys):
         raw_keys["eval_per_device_batch_size"], raw_keys["expansion_factor_real_data"], get_num_target_devices(raw_keys), 1
     )
 
-    raw_keys["num_slices"] = get_num_slices(raw_keys)
+    raw_keys["num_slices"] = max_utils.get_num_slices(raw_keys)
     raw_keys["quantization_local_shard_count"] = get_quantization_local_shard_count(raw_keys)
 
     if using_pipeline_parallelism(raw_keys):
@@ -589,21 +597,6 @@ def get_num_target_devices(raw_keys):
     return len(jax.devices())
 
 
-def get_num_slices(raw_keys):
-  """Calculate num_slices based on number of devices."""
-  if raw_keys["hardware"] == "cpu":
-    max_logging.log(" Setting num_slices=1 for CPU hardware type")
-    return 1
-  if int(raw_keys["compile_topology_num_slices"]) > 0:
-    return raw_keys["compile_topology_num_slices"]
-  else:
-    devices = jax.devices()
-    try:
-      return 1 + max([d.slice_index for d in devices])
-    except:
-      return 1
-
-
 def get_quantization_local_shard_count(raw_keys):
   if raw_keys["quantization_local_shard_count"] == -1:
     return raw_keys["num_slices"]