diff --git a/botocore/awsrequest.py b/botocore/awsrequest.py
index bf4a4da5..ccc01a66 100644
--- a/botocore/awsrequest.py
+++ b/botocore/awsrequest.py
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ import socket
 import inspect
 
 from botocore.compat import six
-from botocore.vendored.requests import models
-from botocore.vendored.requests.sessions import REDIRECT_STATI
+from requests import models
+from requests.sessions import REDIRECT_STATI
 from botocore.compat import HTTPHeaders, HTTPResponse
 from botocore.exceptions import UnseekableStreamError
-from botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.connection import VerifiedHTTPSConnection
-from botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
-from botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool
-from botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPSConnectionPool
+from urllib3.connection import VerifiedHTTPSConnection
+from urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
+from urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool
+from urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPSConnectionPool
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
diff --git a/botocore/compat.py b/botocore/compat.py
index b424b917..e8a13236 100644
--- a/botocore/compat.py
+++ b/botocore/compat.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import datetime
 import sys
 import inspect
 
-from botocore.vendored import six
+import six
 
 
 if six.PY3:
diff --git a/botocore/endpoint.py b/botocore/endpoint.py
index 963068d8..94094992 100644
--- a/botocore/endpoint.py
+++ b/botocore/endpoint.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ import logging
 import time
 import threading
 
-from botocore.vendored.requests.sessions import Session
-from botocore.vendored.requests.utils import get_environ_proxies
+from requests.sessions import Session
+from requests.utils import get_environ_proxies
 
 import botocore.response
 import botocore.exceptions
diff --git a/botocore/retryhandler.py b/botocore/retryhandler.py
index 2505db2c..c12d2e0a 100644
--- a/botocore/retryhandler.py
+++ b/botocore/retryhandler.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ import functools
 import logging
 from binascii import crc32
 
-from botocore.vendored.requests import ConnectionError, Timeout
-from botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import ClosedPoolError
+from requests import ConnectionError, Timeout
+from urllib3.exceptions import ClosedPoolError
 
 from botocore.exceptions import ChecksumError
 
diff --git a/botocore/utils.py b/botocore/utils.py
index 7ae0ae32..c36be744 100644
--- a/botocore/utils.py
+++ b/botocore/utils.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from dateutil.tz import tzlocal, tzutc
 
 from botocore.exceptions import InvalidExpressionError, ConfigNotFound
 from botocore.compat import json, quote, zip_longest
-from botocore.vendored import requests
+import requests
 from botocore.compat import OrderedDict