diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f2104f70..9b46d2cc 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ python:
   - "3.5"
 # command to install dependencies
 install:
-  - pip install -r requirements.txt
+  - pip install urllib3==1.22 requests
   - "python setup.py install"
   - pip install mock
   - pip install pytest==3.2.0 pytest-cov==2.6.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 54393b3e..00000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-boto==2.45.0
-certifi==2019.6.16
-chardet==3.0.4
-idna==2.8
-inflection==0.3.1
-requests==2.21.0
-six==1.12.0
-urllib3==1.24.3
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fba96107..259aa5ed 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import sys
 from setuptools import setup
 
-INSTALL_REQUIRES = ['requests >=2.21.0', 'boto >=2.45.0', 'six >=1.12.0', 'urllib3 >= 1.24.3', 'inflection >= 0.3.1']
+INSTALL_REQUIRES = ['requests >=1.0.3', 'boto >=2.45.0', 'six >=1.2.0', 'urllib3 >= 1.0.2', 'inflection >= 0.3.1']
 if sys.version_info < (2, 7, 0):
     INSTALL_REQUIRES.append('argparse>=1.1')