1. A method comprising: receiving, by a storage server, an offloaded operation for local storage hosted by a first storage controller having a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage controller hosting remote storage; splitting the offloaded operation to create a replication offloaded operation for the remote storage, wherein the offloaded operation corresponds to an operation offloaded from an application server to the storage server and the replication offloaded operation is optimized by the second storage controller with respect to inflight operations; and implementing the offloaded operation upon the local storage and the replication offloaded operation upon the remote storage in parallel.