[wellsecond]

10 minutes to upload is a little slow, and that might be causing this time issue. To see if it is can you try opening up the requirements file and removing all the text in it (making sure you have kept a backup somewhere). Then try the deploy. This will not give you a working skill, the stuff in the requirements needs to be there for the skill to work. But it will lighten the upload package to see if that is the cause of the problem. If it is then we can see if there is an alternative way to deploy for you.

Well, let's look at some alternative way:

$ python deploy-to-lambda.py
2017-03-26 19:07:47:INFO:botocore.credentials: Found credentials in environment variables.
2017-03-26 19:07:47:INFO:lambda_deploy: Packaging lambda kodi-alexa
2017-03-26 19:07:47:WARNING:lambda_deploy: A .env file exists in your Lambda directory - be careful that it does not contain any secrets you don't want uploaded to AWS!
2017-03-26 19:07:47:WARNING:lambda_deploy: Skipping inclusion of of .env file - use LAMBDA_ENV_VARS instead (see documentation for more information)
You must give at least one requirement to install (see "pip help install")
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): lambda.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Adding new kodi-alexa lambda
Successfully deployed kodi-alexa version 1