diff --git a/metaphor/s3/README.md b/metaphor/s3/README.md
index 7af55eb8..d6a826f2 100644
--- a/metaphor/s3/README.md
+++ b/metaphor/s3/README.md
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ All other file types are automatically ignored. If not specified, all of the abo
 
 You can optionally specify the URI patterns to exclude using the `excludes` config. It supports wildcards but not `{table}` & `{partition}` labels.
 
+To exclude an entire directory, use `s3://bucket/directory` instead of `s3://bucket/directory/*`.
+
 ## Optional Configurations
 
 ### TLS Verification
diff --git a/metaphor/s3/path_spec.py b/metaphor/s3/path_spec.py
index 0e114c2b..a69bbf51 100644
--- a/metaphor/s3/path_spec.py
+++ b/metaphor/s3/path_spec.py
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ def allow_path(self, path: str) -> bool:
             path.rsplit("/", slash_to_remove)[0]
             if exclude[-1] == "/":
                 exclude_pat = exclude[:-1]
+            elif exclude[-2:] == "/*":
+                exclude_pat = exclude[:-2]
             else:
                 exclude_pat = exclude
             if fnmatch(path.rsplit("/", slash_to_remove)[0], exclude_pat):
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6240549b..8222af89 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "metaphor-connectors"
-version = "0.14.132"
+version = "0.14.133"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 description = "A collection of Python-based 'connectors' that extract metadata from various sources to ingest into the Metaphor app."
 authors = ["Metaphor <dev@metaphor.io>"]
diff --git a/tests/s3/test_path_spec.py b/tests/s3/test_path_spec.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8991a9d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/s3/test_path_spec.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import pytest
+
+from metaphor.s3.path_spec import PathSpec
+
+
+def test_exclude_all_files_in_directory() -> None:
+    path_spec = PathSpec(
+        uri="s3://bucket/v1/app/*/{table}/v4/*/{partition[0]}/{partition[1]}/{partition[2]}/*.*",
+        file_types={
+            "parquet",
+        },
+        excludes=["s3://bucket/v1/app/global/*"],
+    )
+    assert not path_spec.allow_path("s3://bucket/v1/app/global/foo/v4")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip
+def test_exclude_table_wildcard() -> None:
+    path_spec = PathSpec(
+        uri="s3://bucket/v1/services/data/{table}/v1/*/{partition[0]}/{partition[1]}/{partition[2]}/*.*",
+        file_types={
+            "parquet",
+        },
+        excludes=["s3://bucket/v1/services/data/skipped_*"],
+    )
+    assert not path_spec.allow_path("s3://bucket/v1/services/data/skipped_0/")