diff --git a/make_serverless_requirements.sh b/make_serverless_requirements.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..690cc82c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/make_serverless_requirements.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# This script combines the requirements from base.txt and requirements.txt into serverless_requirements.txt
+
+# Navigate to the directory containing this script
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+cd "$DIR"
+
+# Concatenate the requirements files with a newline character in between
+cat backend/requirements/base.txt > serverless_requirements.txt
+echo "" >> serverless_requirements.txt
+cat model_data/requirements/requirements.txt >> serverless_requirements.txt
+
+# Identify duplicates
+duplicates=$(sort serverless_requirements.txt | uniq -d)
+
+if [ -n "$duplicates" ]; then
+    echo "Warning: Duplicate entries found:"
+    echo "$duplicates"
+    echo "Please resolve these conflicts manually in the combined requirements file."
+fi
+
+# Print a success message
+echo "Combined requirements files into serverless_requirements.txt"
diff --git a/serverless.yml b/serverless.yml
index 8cf60038..b91a7371 100644
--- a/serverless.yml
+++ b/serverless.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ provider:
 
 
 package:
-  #  individually: true
+  individually: true
   #  include:
   #    - backend/**
   #    # Might need to refine the paths that are included
diff --git a/serverless_requirements.txt b/serverless_requirements.txt
index 11ec7436..762019ef 100644
--- a/serverless_requirements.txt
+++ b/serverless_requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,47 @@
--r backend/requirements/base.txt
--r model_data/requirements/requirements.txt
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+anyio==3.7.1
+cffi==1.15.1
+click==8.1.3
+cryptography==37.0.4
+ecdsa==0.18.0
+exceptiongroup==1.1.2
+fastapi==0.99.1
+h11==0.14.0
+httptools==0.5.0
+idna==3.4
+mangum==0.17.0
+pyasn1==0.5.0
+pycparser==2.21
+pydantic==1.10.11
+PyJWT==2.7.0
+python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python-jose==3.3.0
+PyYAML==6.0
+rsa==4.9
+six==1.16.0
+sniffio==1.3.0
+starlette==0.27.0
+typing_extensions==4.7.1
+uvicorn==0.22.0
+uvloop==0.17.0
+watchfiles==0.19.0
+websockets==11.0.3
+boto3
+pandas==2.0.3
+numpy==1.25.1
+pytz==2023.3
+tzdata==2023.3
+epc-api-python==1.0.2
+tqdm
+mypy
+fuzzywuzzy
+python-Levenshtein
+dbfread
+pyproj
+pint
+mip
+seaborn
+statsmodels
+scikit-learn
+pyspellchecker
+textblob
+xgboost
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