diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 577b5c2eacc4d..7b0d4faf93a7f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - Bump `org.apache.commons:commons-compress` from 1.22 to 1.23.0 (#7563)
 - Bump `jackson` from 2.15.0 to 2.15.1 ([#7603](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/7603))
 - Bump `net.minidev:json-smart` from 2.4.10 to 2.4.11 (#7660)
+- Bump `com.google.api:gax` from 2.17.0 to 2.27.0 (#7697)
 
 ### Changed
 - Enable `./gradlew build` on MacOS by disabling bcw tests ([#7303](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/7303))
diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
index 19a260cca2450..d61ba45535e94 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ dependencies {
   api "org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-1.2-api:${versions.log4j}"
   api "commons-codec:commons-codec:${versions.commonscodec}"
   api 'com.google.api:api-common:1.8.1'
-  api 'com.google.api:gax:1.54.0'
+  api 'com.google.api:gax:2.27.0'
   api 'org.threeten:threetenbp:1.4.4'
   api 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.9.0'
   api 'com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-common-protos:2.10.0'
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ thirdPartyAudit {
 
   ignoreMissingClasses(
     'com.google.api.client.http.apache.v2.ApacheHttpTransport',
+    'com.google.api.gax.tracing.NoopApiTracer',
     'com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Blob',
     'com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreService',
     'com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreServiceFactory',
@@ -189,6 +190,11 @@ thirdPartyAudit {
     'org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext',
     'org.apache.http.protocol.HttpProcessor',
     'org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor',
+    'org.graalvm.nativeimage.hosted.Feature',
+    'org.graalvm.nativeimage.hosted.Feature$BeforeAnalysisAccess',
+    'org.graalvm.nativeimage.hosted.Feature$DuringAnalysisAccess',
+    'org.graalvm.nativeimage.hosted.Feature$FeatureAccess',
+    'org.graalvm.nativeimage.hosted.RuntimeReflection',
     // commons-logging provided dependencies
     'javax.jms.Message',
     'javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent',
diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/licenses/gax-1.54.0.jar.sha1 b/plugins/repository-gcs/licenses/gax-1.54.0.jar.sha1
deleted file mode 100644
index ed63c084f4edc..0000000000000
--- a/plugins/repository-gcs/licenses/gax-1.54.0.jar.sha1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1f1668868b8b3fd5fc248d80c16dd9f09afc9180
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/licenses/gax-2.27.0.jar.sha1 b/plugins/repository-gcs/licenses/gax-2.27.0.jar.sha1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1813a3aa94404
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/repository-gcs/licenses/gax-2.27.0.jar.sha1
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+04a27757c9240da71f896be39f47aaa6e23ef989
\ No newline at end of file