diff --git a/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md b/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md
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--- a/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md
+++ b/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/sources/s3.md
@@ -104,7 +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. Leave this value as the default unless your S3 objects are less than 1 MB in size. Performance may decrease for larger S3 objects. This setting affects SQS-based sources and S3-Scan sources. Default is `1`.
+`workers` | No | Integer | Configures the number of worker threads (1--10) that the source uses to read data from S3. Leave this value as the default unless your S3 objects are less than 1 MB in size. Performance may decrease for larger S3 objects. This setting affects SQS-based sources and S3-Scan sources. Default is `1`.