diff --git a/packages/amplify-python-function-runtime-provider/src/util/packageUtils.ts b/packages/amplify-python-function-runtime-provider/src/util/packageUtils.ts
index 1b62e10a118..4db20871022 100644
--- a/packages/amplify-python-function-runtime-provider/src/util/packageUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/amplify-python-function-runtime-provider/src/util/packageUtils.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ export async function pythonPackage(context: any, params: PackageRequest): Promi
           '**/test/**',
           '**/tests/**',
           'distutils**',
+          '**/pip/**',
+          '**/*.dist-info/**',
+          '*.virtualenv',
           'pip**',
           'pkg_resources**',
           'setuptools**',