diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/Payloads.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/Payloads.java
index 0a65d63dc1..106c037c3f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/Payloads.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/Payloads.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 
-import org.jclouds.io.payloads.ByteArrayPayload;
 import org.jclouds.io.payloads.ByteSourcePayload;
 import org.jclouds.io.payloads.FilePayload;
 import org.jclouds.io.payloads.InputStreamPayload;
@@ -65,14 +64,6 @@ public class Payloads {
       return new InputStreamPayload(checkNotNull(data, "data"));
    }
 
-   /**
-    * @deprecated see newPayload(ByteSource)
-    */
-   @Deprecated
-   public static ByteArrayPayload newByteArrayPayload(byte[] data) {
-      return new ByteArrayPayload(checkNotNull(data, "data"));
-   }
-
    public static ByteSourcePayload newByteSourcePayload(ByteSource data) {
       return new ByteSourcePayload(checkNotNull(data, "data"));
    }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/payloads/ByteArrayPayload.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/payloads/ByteArrayPayload.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5bcf514648..0000000000
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/payloads/ByteArrayPayload.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.jclouds.io.payloads;
-
-import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
-import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-
-/**
- * @deprecated see ByteSourcePayload
- */
-@Deprecated
-public class ByteArrayPayload extends BasePayload<byte[]> {
-   public ByteArrayPayload(byte[] content) {
-      this(content, null);
-   }
-
-   public ByteArrayPayload(byte[] content, byte[] md5) {
-      super(content);
-      getContentMetadata().setContentLength(Long.valueOf(checkNotNull(content, "content").length));
-      getContentMetadata().setContentMD5(md5);
-      checkArgument(content.length >= 0, "length cannot me negative");
-   }
-
-   /**
-    * {@inheritDoc}
-    */
-   @Override
-   public InputStream openStream() {
-      return new ByteArrayInputStream(content);
-   }
-
-}