Yes, this seems to be totally normal. Like discussed in this SO thread <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37683120/gcloud-preview-app-deploy-process-takes-8-minutes-is-this-normal>, most of the deployment steps happen away from your computer and are independent of your codebase size, so there's not a lot you can do to speed up the process.
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