When i was using Google Cloud Network Load Balancer all my HTTP gzip connections where left intact, but when using HTTP/S Load Balancer end users don't get the gzipped content.
I'm using nginx on the VM. Using this curl example:
curl -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -H "Host: my.website.com" -I https://$IP_TO_TEST/login --insecure
I get Content-Encoding: gzip
when connecting direct to the VM and no gzip when I connect to the HTTP load balancer.
I've searched all the Google cloud documentation for this and they don't mention whether they support or don't gzipped content from backends.