diff --git a/bin/jaws b/bin/jaws
index f6bd8dad2..e7c464a88 100755
--- a/bin/jaws
+++ b/bin/jaws
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ program
     'stack which provisions essential AWS resources for your JAWS project.')
     .option('-n, --proj-name <name>', 'Project name')
     .option('-s, --stage <stage>', 'Stage to create')
-    .option('-r, --lambda-region <region>', 'Region lambda(s) will be created in')
+    .option('-r, --lambda-region <region>', 'Region lambda(s) will be created in. Only support 1 currently')
     .option('-e, --notification-email <email>', 'Email to be notified with stack alerts')
     .option('-p, --profile <profile name>', 'AWS profile to use (as defined in ~/.aws/credentials)')
     .action(function(options) {
@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ program
     });
 
 //TODO: add untag feature
-//TODO: add tag all feature
-//TODO: add untag all feature
+//TODO: add tag/untag all feature
 program
     .command('tag')
     .description('Tag a lambda function to be deployed the next time you run the deploy command for all' +
diff --git a/lib/commands/deploy_lambda.js b/lib/commands/deploy_lambda.js
index c9081e3a6..accc9cd06 100644
--- a/lib/commands/deploy_lambda.js
+++ b/lib/commands/deploy_lambda.js
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ var JawsError = require('../jaws-error'),
     async = require('async'),
     AWSUtils = require('../utils/aws'),
     utils = require('../utils/index'),
+    browserify = require('browserify'),
+    UglifyJS = require('uglify-js'),
+    zip = new require('node-zip')(),
     extend = require('util')._extend; //OK per Isaacs and http://stackoverflow.com/a/22286375/563420
 
 Promise.promisifyAll(fs);
@@ -33,9 +36,19 @@ module.exports = function(JAWS) {
     });
   };
 
-  JAWS._packageNodeJs = function(distDir, fullLambdaName, jawsFilePath, excludeFiles) {
-    var jawsJson = require(jawsFilePath),
-        baseDir = path.dirname(jawsFilePath),
+  /**
+   * Package up nodejs lambda
+   *
+   * @param tmpDistDir
+   * @param fullLambdaName
+   * @param jawsFilePath
+   * @param excludeFiles
+   * @param ignoreFiles
+   * @returns {Promise} {jawsFilePath: jawsFilePath,zipBuffer:zippedData}
+   * @private
+   */
+  JAWS._packageNodeJs = function(tmpDistDir, fullLambdaName, jawsFilePath, excludeFiles, ignoreFiles) {
+    var baseDir = path.dirname(jawsFilePath),
         b = browserify({
           entries: path.join(baseDir, 'index.js'),
           node: true,
@@ -47,34 +60,78 @@ module.exports = function(JAWS) {
       b.exclude(file);
     });
 
+    ignoreFiles.forEach(function(file) {
+      b.ignore(file);
+    });
+
     var uglyOptions = {
       mangle: true,
-      compress: {},
+      compress: {}, //@see http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/compress
     };
 
-    //TODO: save the browserfied js to the fs (browserfied.js) so we have audit trail
-    //b.bundle()
-    //    .pipe()
+    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
+      //Save the browserfied js to so we have audit trail
+      var broserfiedFile = path.join(tmpDistDir, 'browserfied.js'),
+          uglifiedFile = path.join(tmpDistDir, 'index.js'),
+          bFile = fs.createWriteStream(broserfiedFile);
+      b.bundle().pipe(bFile);
 
-    //uglify and save as index.js
+      bFile
+          .on('finish', function() {
+            //uglify and save as index.js
+            var result = UglifyJS.minify(broserfiedFile, uglyOptions); //minify does not expose its internal stream :(
 
-    //compress and save as zip
+            if (!result || !result.code) {
+              reject(new JawsError('Problem uglifying code'), JawsError.errorCodes.UNKNOWN);
+            }
+
+            fs.writeFileSync(uglifiedFile, result.code);
+
+            //compress and save as zip node buffer
+            zip.file('index.js', result.code);
+
+            var zippedData = zip.generate({
+              type: 'nodebuffer',
+              compression: 'DEFLATE',
+            });
+
+            if (zippedData.length > 52428800) {
+              reject(new JawsError(
+                      'Zip file is > the 50MB Lambda deploy limit (' + zippedData.length + ' bytes)',
+                      JawsError.errorCodes.ZIP_TOO_BIG)
+              );
+            }
+
+            resolve({jawsFilePath: jawsFilePath, zipBuffer: zippedData});
+          })
+          .on('error', function(err) {
+            reject(err);
+          });
+    });
   };
 
+  /**
+   * Create lambda package for deployment
+   *
+   * @param jawsFilePath
+   * @param stage
+   * @returns {Promise} {jawsFilePath: jawsFilePath,zipBuffer:zippedData}
+   * @private
+   */
   JAWS._bundleLambda = function(jawsFilePath, stage) {
     var _this = this,
         jawsJson = require(jawsFilePath),
         projName = JAWS._meta.projectJson.name,
         fullLambdaName = [stage, projName, jawsJson.lambda.name].join('_-_'),
-        distDir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), fullLambdaName + '@' + new Date());
+        tmpDistDir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), fullLambdaName + '@' + new Date());
 
-    console.log('Bundling', fullLambdaName, 'in tmp dir', distDir);
+    console.log('Creating dist for', fullLambdaName, 'in tmp dir', tmpDistDir);
 
-    fs.mkdirSync(distDir);
+    fs.mkdirSync(tmpDistDir);
 
     switch (jawsJson.lambda.runtime) {
       case 'nodejs':
-        return _this._packageNodeJs(distDir);
+        return _this._packageNodeJs(tmpDistDir);
         break;
       default:
         return Promise.reject(new JawsError(
@@ -84,6 +141,10 @@ module.exports = function(JAWS) {
     }
   };
 
+  JAWS._createOrUpdateLambda = function(jawsFilePath, zipBuffer) {
+
+  };
+
   /**
    * Deploy lambda at cwd or if deployAll is true does all tag lambdas under back dir
    *
@@ -113,7 +174,7 @@ module.exports = function(JAWS) {
 
           return Promise.all(builderQueue);
         })
-        .then(function(builtLambdas) {
+        .then(function(packagedLambdas) {
 
         });
   };
diff --git a/lib/commands/new.js b/lib/commands/new.js
index 13dd44255..46c5fae3a 100644
--- a/lib/commands/new.js
+++ b/lib/commands/new.js
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ function _getAnswers(projName, stage, lambdaRegion, notificationEmail, awsProfil
     prompts.push({
       type: 'rawlist',
       name: 'region',
-      message: 'Which AWS Region would you like to use (you can change these later)?',
+      message: 'Which AWS Region would you like to use (can change later. only support one at this time)?',
       default: 'us-east-1',
       choices: [
         'us-east-1',
diff --git a/lib/jaws-error/index.js b/lib/jaws-error/index.js
index c59e6f00c..f1e778238 100644
--- a/lib/jaws-error/index.js
+++ b/lib/jaws-error/index.js
@@ -27,4 +27,5 @@ module.exports.errorCodes = {
   MISSING_AWS_CREDS_PROFILE: 3,
   MISSING_AWS_CREDS: 4,
   INVALID_PROJ_NAME: 5,
+  ZIP_TOO_BIG: 6,
 };
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c99cdf7a5..2ce53754c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
     "node-uuid": "^1.4.2",
     "node-zip": "^1.1.0",
     "nodemon": "^1.3.8",
-    "prettysize": "0.0.3",
     "readdirp": "^1.4.0",
     "replace": "^0.3.0",
     "rimraf": "^2.2.8",