diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 83c3dda386..56386ceefc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -368,44 +368,15 @@ jobs:
     env:
       SLS_DEPRECATION_DISABLE: "*" # Turn off deprecation warnings in the pipeline
     steps:
-      - name: set branch_name # Some integrations (Dependabot & Snyk) build very long branch names. This is a switch to make long branch names shorter.
-        run: |
-          echo "GITHUB_REF=${GITHUB_REF}"        
-          if [[ "$GITHUB_REF" =~ ^refs/heads/dependabot/.* ]]; then
-            echo "branch_name=`echo ${GITHUB_REF##*/*-} | md5sum | head -c 10 | sed 's/^/x/'`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          elif [[ "$GITHUB_REF" =~ ^refs/.*/snyk-* ]]; then
-            echo "branch_name=`echo ${GITHUB_REF##*/*-} | head -c 10 | sed 's/^/s/'`" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          else
-            echo "branch_name=${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          fi
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Validate branch name
-        run: ./.github/branchNameValidation.sh $STAGE_PREFIX$branch_name
-      - name: set branch specific variable names
-        run: ./.github/build_vars.sh set_names
-      - name: set variable values
-        run: ./.github/build_vars.sh set_values
         env:
           AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: ${{ secrets[env.BRANCH_SPECIFIC_VARNAME_AWS_DEFAULT_REGION] || secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
           AWS_OIDC_ROLE_TO_ASSUME: ${{ secrets[env.BRANCH_SPECIFIC_VARNAME_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_TO_ASSUME] || secrets.AWS_OIDC_ROLE_TO_ASSUME }}
-          STAGE_PREFIX: ${{ secrets.STAGE_PREFIX }}
-          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-          CODE_CLIMATE_ID: ${{ secrets.CODE_CLIMATE_ID }}
       - name: Configure AWS credentials for GitHub Actions
         uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
         with:
           role-to-assume: ${{ env.AWS_OIDC_ROLE_TO_ASSUME }}
           aws-region: ${{ env.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
-        with:
-          node-version-file: ".nvmrc"
-      - uses: actions/cache@v3
-        with:
-          path: "**/node_modules"
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-modules-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock', 'plugins/**') }}
-      - name: set path
-        run: |
-          echo "PATH=$(pwd)/node_modules/.bin/:$PATH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: clean-up-iplist
         id: reset-ip-set
         run: ./.github/waf-controller.sh ${{ needs.e2e-tests-init.outputs.ipset_name }} ${{ needs.e2e-tests-init.outputs.ipset_id }} '[]'