diff --git a/website/docs/backends/types/s3.html.md b/website/docs/backends/types/s3.html.md
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@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Terraform is an administrative tool that manages your infrastructure, and so
 ideally the infrastructure that is used by Terraform should exist outside of
 the infrastructure that Terraform manages. This can be achieved by creating a
 separate _administrative_ AWS account which contains the user accounts used by
-human operators and any infrastructure and tools used to manage the the other
+human operators and any infrastructure and tools used to manage the other
 accounts. Isolating shared administrative tools from your main environments
 has a number of advantages, such as avoiding accidentally damaging the
 administrative infrastructure while changing the target infrastructure, and