diff --git a/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py b/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py
index 03614ec9..2ac32063 100644
--- a/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py
+++ b/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ def _extract_other_logs(self):
                     "DD_MULTILINE_LOG_REGEX_PATTERN %s did not match start of file, splitting by line",
                     DD_MULTILINE_LOG_REGEX_PATTERN,
                 )
+                self.data_store.data = self.data_store.data.splitlines()
 
             for line in self.data_store.data:
                 yield self._format_event(line)