diff --git a/website/docs/language/settings/backends/configuration.mdx b/website/docs/language/settings/backends/configuration.mdx
index bf2f785620..65fffeb9d3 100644
--- a/website/docs/language/settings/backends/configuration.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/language/settings/backends/configuration.mdx
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ There are several ways to supply the remaining arguments:
   profile= "Your_Profile"
   ```
 
-  Important: If your config file contains secrets it may be kept in
+  When your configuration file contains secrets, you can store them in
   a secure data store, such as [Vault](https://www.vaultproject.io/),
   in which case it must be downloaded to the local disk before running Terraform.