diff --git a/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md b/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md
index 47641b67a2..165933887d 100644
--- a/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md
+++ b/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Option | Required | Type | Description
 `s3_select` | No | [s3_select](#s3_select) | The Amazon S3 Select configuration.
 `scan` | No | [scan](#scan) | The S3 scan configuration.
 `delete_s3_objects_on_read` | No | Boolean | When `true`, the S3 scan attempts to delete S3 objects after all events from the S3 object are successfully acknowledged by all sinks. `acknowledgments` should be enabled when deleting S3 objects. Default is `false`.
+`workers` | No | Integer | Configures the number of worker threads that the source uses to read data from S3.  Leaving this value at the default unless your S3 objects are less than 1MB. Performance may decrease for larger S3 objects. This setting only affects SQS-based sources. Default is `1`.
 
 
 ## sqs