diff --git a/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/common.py b/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/common.py
index f6247e2ce..91c5045e2 100644
--- a/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/common.py
+++ b/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/common.py
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ def is_cloudtrail(key):
     return bool(match)
 
 
+def is_vpc_flowlog(key):
+    return "vpcflowlogs" in key
+
+
 def find_cloudwatch_source(log_group):
     for prefix in AwsCwEventSourcePrefix:
         if log_group.startswith(str(prefix)):
diff --git a/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py b/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py
index 39ac2b0d5..be40c0e68 100644
--- a/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py
+++ b/aws/logs_monitoring/steps/handlers/s3_handler.py
@@ -18,7 +18,13 @@
     DD_USE_VPC,
     GOV_STRING,
 )
-from steps.common import add_service_tag, is_cloudtrail, merge_dicts, parse_event_source
+from steps.common import (
+    add_service_tag,
+    is_cloudtrail,
+    is_vpc_flowlog,
+    merge_dicts,
+    parse_event_source,
+)
 
 
 class S3EventDataStore:
@@ -63,6 +69,7 @@ def handle(self, event):
         add_service_tag(self.metadata)
 
         self._extract_data()
+
         yield from self._get_structured_lines_for_s3_handler()
 
     def _extract_event(self, event):
@@ -178,6 +185,9 @@ def _extract_cloudtrail_logs(self):
             self.logger.debug("Unable to parse cloudtrail log: %s" % e)
 
     def _extract_other_logs(self):
+        # VPC flow logs have a header line that should be skipped
+        skip_first_line = is_vpc_flowlog(self.data_store.key)
+
         # Check if using multiline log regex pattern
         # and determine whether line or pattern separated logs
         if self.multiline_regex_start_pattern and self.multiline_regex_pattern:
@@ -197,7 +207,9 @@ def _extract_other_logs(self):
                 )
                 self.data_store.data = self.data_store.data.splitlines()
 
-            for line in self.data_store.data:
+            for i, line in enumerate(self.data_store.data):
+                if skip_first_line and i == 0:
+                    continue
                 yield self._format_event(line)
 
         else:
@@ -206,7 +218,10 @@ def _extract_other_logs(self):
             #
             # https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.splitlines
             # https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.splitlines
-            for line in self.data_store.data.splitlines():
+            for i, line in enumerate(self.data_store.data.splitlines()):
+                if skip_first_line and i == 0:
+                    continue
+
                 line = line.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore").strip()
                 if len(line) == 0:
                     continue
diff --git a/aws/logs_monitoring/tests/test_s3_handler.py b/aws/logs_monitoring/tests/test_s3_handler.py
index d0daecddd..a3360d276 100644
--- a/aws/logs_monitoring/tests/test_s3_handler.py
+++ b/aws/logs_monitoring/tests/test_s3_handler.py
@@ -300,6 +300,31 @@ def test_set_source_cloudfront(self):
             "s3",
         )
 
+    def test_vpc_flowlog_skips_header_line(self):
+        """Test that VPC flow logs skip the first header line"""
+        key = "AWSLogs/123456789012/vpcflowlogs/us-east-1/2024/01/01/123456789012_vpcflowlogs_us-east-1_fl-abc123.log.gz"
+        source = "vpc"
+        data = (
+            "version account-id interface-id srcaddr dstaddr srcport dstport protocol packets bytes start end action log-status\n"
+            "2 123456789012 eni-abc123 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 443 49152 6 10 840 1620000000 1620000060 ACCEPT OK\n"
+            "2 123456789012 eni-abc123 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 49152 443 6 8 640 1620000000 1620000060 ACCEPT OK"
+        )
+        structured_lines = self.parse_lines(data, key, source)
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(structured_lines), 2)
+        self.assertIn("10.0.0.1", structured_lines[0]["message"])
+        self.assertNotIn("version account-id", structured_lines[0]["message"])
+
+    def test_non_vpc_flowlog_includes_first_line(self):
+        """Test that non-VPC flow logs include all lines"""
+        key = "AWSLogs/123456789012/elasticloadbalancing/us-east-1/2024/01/01/log.gz"
+        source = "elb"
+        data = "first line of data\n" "second line of data\n" "third line of data"
+        structured_lines = self.parse_lines(data, key, source)
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(structured_lines), 3)
+        self.assertEqual(structured_lines[0]["message"], "first line of data")
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()