diff --git a/lib/http/base.js b/lib/http/base.js
index 3ad5c173c..03319a09a 100644
--- a/lib/http/base.js
+++ b/lib/http/base.js
@@ -78,12 +78,8 @@ HttpClient.prototype.request = function (options)
         timeout: timeout,
         requestOCSP: true,
         rejectUnauthorized: true,
-        // axios does not know how to decode response with content-encoding GZIP (it should be gzip)
-        // that we receive from GCS, so let's get response as arraybuffer and unzip it outside axios
-        // issue in axios about case insensitive content-encoding is marked as won't fix: https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/4280
-        // for all other responses we manually parse jsons or other structures from the server so they need to be text
-        // TODO SNOW-917244 we can get rid of this logic when axios > 1.5.0 will be release as it should contain fix https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/5890
-        responseType: options.url.includes('storage.googleapis.com') ? 'arraybuffer' : 'text',
+        // we manually parse jsons or other structures from the server so they need to be text
+        responseType: 'text',
       };
 
     let mock;
@@ -106,24 +102,7 @@ HttpClient.prototype.request = function (options)
 
     request = axios.request(requestOptions).then(response => {
       if (Util.isFunction(options.callback)) {
-        if (options.url.includes('storage.googleapis.com')) {
-          // we request that GCS returns body as arraybuffer, not text
-          // when it is GZIPped then we have to unzip it
-          // otherwise we should convert arraybuffer to string
-          // TODO SNOW-917244 we can get rid of this logic when axios > 1.5.0 will be release as it should contain fix https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/5890
-          try {
-            if (response.headers['content-encoding'] === 'GZIP') {
-              const unzippedData = zlib.gunzipSync(response.data).toString('utf-8');
-              return options.callback(null, normalizeResponse(response), unzippedData);
-            } else {
-              return options.callback(null, normalizeResponse(response), new TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(response.data));
-            }
-          } catch (e) {
-            return options.callback(e, null, null);
-          }
-        } else {
-          return options.callback(null, normalizeResponse(response), response.data);
-        }
+        return options.callback(null, normalizeResponse(response), response.data);
       } else {
         Logger.getInstance().trace(`Callback function was not provided for the call to ${options.url}`);
         return null;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f15dbaf76..75c2bd18b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     "agent-base": "^6.0.2",
     "asn1.js-rfc2560": "^5.0.0",
     "asn1.js-rfc5280": "^3.0.0",
-    "axios": "^1.5.0",
+    "axios": "^1.5.1",
     "big-integer": "^1.6.43",
     "bignumber.js": "^2.4.0",
     "binascii": "0.0.2",