diff --git a/config/locales/server.en.yml b/config/locales/server.en.yml
index 9531d40f16e..6e6ca29229a 100644
--- a/config/locales/server.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/server.en.yml
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ en:
     purge_deleted_uploads_grace_period_days: "Grace period (in days) before a deleted upload is erased."
     purge_unactivated_users_grace_period_days: "Grace period (in days) before a user who has not activated their account is deleted. Set to 0 to never purge unactivated users."
     enable_s3_uploads: "Place uploads on Amazon S3 storage. IMPORTANT: requires valid S3 credentials (both access key id & secret access key)."
-    s3_use_iam_profile: 'Use AWS EC2 IAM role to retrieve keys. NOTE: enabling will override "s3 access key id" and "s3 secret access key" settings.'
+    s3_use_iam_profile: 'Use an <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2_instance-profiles.html">AWS EC2 instance profile</a> to grant access to the S3 bucket. NOTE: enabling this requires Discourse to be running in an appropriately-configured EC2 instance, and overrides the "s3 access key id" and "s3 secret access key" settings.'
     s3_upload_bucket: "The Amazon S3 bucket name that files will be uploaded into. WARNING: must be lowercase, no periods, no underscores."
     s3_access_key_id: "The Amazon S3 access key id that will be used to upload images."
     s3_secret_access_key: "The Amazon S3 secret access key that will be used to upload images."