diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0c02899c..fc838627 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -12,4 +12,8 @@ COPY . .
 RUN pip install . -t ./python/lib/$runtime/site-packages
 
 # Remove *.pyc files
-RUN find ./python/lib/$runtime/site-packages -name \*.pyc -delete
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+RUN find ./python/lib/$runtime/site-packages -name \*.pyc -delete
+
+# Remove botocore (40MB) to reduce package size. aws-xray-sdk
+# installs it, while it's already provided by the Lambda Runtime.
+RUN rm -rf ./python/lib/$runtime/site-packages/botocore*
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c9e30978..a4639b29 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@
         'ddtrace==0.28.0',
         'wrapt==1.11.1',
         'setuptools==40.8.0',
-        'boto3==1.9.160'
     ],
     extras_require={
         'dev': [
             'nose2==0.9.1',
             'flake8==3.7.7',
-            'requests==2.21.0'
+            'requests==2.21.0',
+            'boto3==1.9.160',
         ]
     }
 )
diff --git a/tests/test_tags.py b/tests/test_tags.py
index af4c8882..4ec9ca07 100644
--- a/tests/test_tags.py
+++ b/tests/test_tags.py
@@ -43,4 +43,3 @@ def test_get_runtime_tag(self):
 
         self.mock_python_version_tuple.return_value = ("3", "7", "2")
         self.assertEqual(get_runtime_tag(), "runtime:python3.7")
-
diff --git a/tests/test_wrapper.py b/tests/test_wrapper.py
index bcb69a86..a45ca409 100644
--- a/tests/test_wrapper.py
+++ b/tests/test_wrapper.py
@@ -242,4 +242,3 @@ def lambda_handler(event, context):
             lambda_handler(lambda_event, get_mock_context())
 
         self.mock_lambda_metric.assert_not_called()
-