diff --git a/modules/repository-azure/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/azure/AzureBlobStore.java b/modules/repository-azure/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/azure/AzureBlobStore.java
index 62ded398c11f..5f1d22fa9ecc 100644
--- a/modules/repository-azure/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/azure/AzureBlobStore.java
+++ b/modules/repository-azure/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/azure/AzureBlobStore.java
@@ -765,11 +765,6 @@ public class AzureBlobStore implements BlobStore {
             }
         }
 
-        @Override
-        public long skip(long n) {
-            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("skip is not supported");
-        }
-
         private void releaseByteBuf(ByteBuf buf) {
             ReferenceCountUtil.safeRelease(buf);
             this.byteBuf = null;
diff --git a/modules/repository-gcs/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/gcs/GoogleCloudStorageRetryingInputStream.java b/modules/repository-gcs/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/gcs/GoogleCloudStorageRetryingInputStream.java
index 36c05191089b..025873878975 100644
--- a/modules/repository-gcs/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/gcs/GoogleCloudStorageRetryingInputStream.java
+++ b/modules/repository-gcs/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/gcs/GoogleCloudStorageRetryingInputStream.java
@@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ class GoogleCloudStorageRetryingInputStream extends InputStream {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public long skip(long n) {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("GoogleCloudStorageRetryingInputStream does not support seeking");
+    public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
+        // This could be optimized on a failure by re-opening stream directly to the preferred location. However, it is rarely called,
+        // so for now we will rely on the default implementation which just discards bytes by reading.
+        return super.skip(n);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/modules/repository-s3/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStream.java b/modules/repository-s3/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStream.java
index 93e218c70048..7885e36c3c29 100644
--- a/modules/repository-s3/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStream.java
+++ b/modules/repository-s3/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/s3/S3RetryingInputStream.java
@@ -225,8 +225,10 @@ class S3RetryingInputStream extends InputStream {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public long skip(long n) {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("S3RetryingInputStream does not support seeking");
+    public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
+        // This could be optimized on a failure by re-opening stream directly to the preferred location. However, it is rarely called,
+        // so for now we will rely on the default implementation which just discards bytes by reading.
+        return super.skip(n);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/modules/repository-url/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/url/http/RetryingHttpInputStream.java b/modules/repository-url/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/url/http/RetryingHttpInputStream.java
index e2644da2182d..70aaf9864d56 100644
--- a/modules/repository-url/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/url/http/RetryingHttpInputStream.java
+++ b/modules/repository-url/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/blobstore/url/http/RetryingHttpInputStream.java
@@ -112,8 +112,10 @@ class RetryingHttpInputStream extends InputStream {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public long skip(long n) {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("RetryingHttpInputStream does not support seeking");
+    public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
+        // This could be optimized on a failure by re-opening stream directly to the preferred location. However, it is rarely called,
+        // so for now we will rely on the default implementation which just discards bytes by reading.
+        return super.skip(n);
     }
 
     @Override