diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index dbeab8d1f4..dd6d3d8fbb 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -30125,7 +30125,6 @@
         "es-module-lexer": "^1.0.0",
         "esbuild": "0.19.11",
         "execa": "^7.0.0",
-        "fast-glob": "^3.3.2",
         "filter-obj": "^5.0.0",
         "find-up": "^6.0.0",
         "is-builtin-module": "^3.1.0",
diff --git a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/package.json b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/package.json
index 7e4e369ff8..be754a5852 100644
--- a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/package.json
+++ b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/package.json
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
     "es-module-lexer": "^1.0.0",
     "esbuild": "0.19.11",
     "execa": "^7.0.0",
-    "fast-glob": "^3.3.2",
     "filter-obj": "^5.0.0",
     "find-up": "^6.0.0",
     "is-builtin-module": "^3.1.0",
diff --git a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/src/runtimes/node/utils/included_files.ts b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/src/runtimes/node/utils/included_files.ts
index ef4e543da6..1d625930b4 100644
--- a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/src/runtimes/node/utils/included_files.ts
+++ b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/src/runtimes/node/utils/included_files.ts
@@ -56,12 +56,13 @@ export const getPathsOfIncludedFiles = async (
     onlyFiles: false,
     // get directories as well to get symlinked directories,
     // to filter the regular non symlinked directories out mark them with a slash at the end to filter them out.
+    // TODO(serhalp) If we can find a better way to do this, we can use tinyglobby here and remove fast-glob entirely.
     markDirectories: true,
     followSymbolicLinks: false,
   })
 
+  // now filter the non symlinked directories out that got marked with a trailing slash
   const paths = pathGroups.filter((path) => !path.endsWith('/')).map(normalize)
 
-  // now filter the non symlinked directories out that got marked with a trailing slash
   return { excludePatterns, paths }
 }
diff --git a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/main.test.ts b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/main.test.ts
index e25a1c99bc..28ef1836c0 100644
--- a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/main.test.ts
+++ b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/main.test.ts
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import cpy from 'cpy'
 import decompress from 'decompress'
 import merge from 'deepmerge'
 import { execa, execaNode } from 'execa'
-import glob from 'fast-glob'
 import isCI from 'is-ci'
 import { pathExists } from 'path-exists'
 import semver from 'semver'
+import { glob } from 'tinyglobby'
 import { dir as getTmpDir, tmpName } from 'tmp-promise'
 import unixify from 'unixify'
 import { afterAll, afterEach, beforeAll, describe, expect, test, vi } from 'vitest'
diff --git a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/telemetry.test.ts b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/telemetry.test.ts
index e72dcb1d13..f368e70467 100644
--- a/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/telemetry.test.ts
+++ b/packages/zip-it-and-ship-it/tests/telemetry.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { join } from 'path'
 
 import decompress from 'decompress'
-import glob from 'fast-glob'
+import { glob } from 'tinyglobby'
 import { dir as getTmpDir } from 'tmp-promise'
 import { expect, test } from 'vitest'