docs: improve enterprise overview page

Move enterprise feature/package matrix back to the overview page.
Add descriptions for each enterprise feature that discuss use case.
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This feature requires version 1.11.0+ of
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires version 1.8.0+ of
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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---
layout: docs
page_title: Consul Enterprise Feature Availability
description: >-
Consul Enterprise is offered in several forms that provide a different mix
of enterprise features. Choose the form that best suits the needs of your
organization.
---
# Consul Enterprise Feature Availability
Consul Enterprise is offered in several forms that provide a different mix of enterprise features.
Choose the form that best suits the needs of your organization.
Available enterprise features per Consul form and license include:
| Feature | [HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul] | [Consul Enterprise] | Legacy Consul Enterprise (module-based) |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Consul servers as a managed service | Yes | No (self-managed) | No (self-managed) |
| [Admin Partitions](/docs/enterprise/admin-partitions) | Standard tier and above | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
| [Namespaces](/docs/enterprise/namespaces) | Standard tier and above | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
| [Enhanced Read Scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups) | All tiers | Yes | Yes |
| [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades) | All tiers | Yes | Yes |
| [Network Infrastructure Automation with Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise](/docs/nia/enterprise) | | Yes | Yes |
| [Advanced Federation for Complex Network Topologies](/docs/enterprise/federation) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [OIDC Auth Method](/docs/acl/auth-methods/oidc) | | Yes | Yes |
| [Audit Logging](/docs/enterprise/audit-logging) | Standard tier and above | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
| [Sentinel](/docs/enterprise/sentinel) | All tiers | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
[HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul]: https://cloud.hashicorp.com/products/consul
[Consul Enterprise]: https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/
## Gain Access to Enterprise Features
### Self-Managed Consul
To gain access to Consul Enterprise features in a self-managed installation,
[apply a purchased license](/docs/enterprise/license/overview)
to the Consul Enterprise binary that grants access to the desired features.
### HCP Consul
No action is required to gain access to Consul Enterprise features in a
HashiCorp Cloud Platform installation.

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This feature requires
self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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[Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/)
features address the organizational complexities of collaboration, operations, scale, and governance
and are [available in several forms of Consul Enterprise](/docs/enterprise/feature-availability).
and are [available in several forms of Consul Enterprise](#consul-enterprise-feature-availability).
If you have purchased Consul Enterprise, refer to
[how to gain access to enterprise features](/docs/enterprise/feature-availability#gain-access-to-enterprise-features).
[how to gain access to enterprise features](#gain-access-to-enterprise-features).
Features include:
Enterprise features include:
#### Multi-Tenancy
- [Admin Partitions](/docs/enterprise/admin-partitions)
- [Namespaces](/docs/enterprise/namespaces)
#### Scalability
- [Enhanced Read Scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale)
- [Admin Partitions](/docs/enterprise/admin-partitions): define administrative boundaries between tenants within a single Consul datacenter
- [Namespaces](/docs/enterprise/namespaces): define resource boundaries within a single admin partition for further organizational flexibility
#### Resiliency
- [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy)
- [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups)
- [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups): configure the automatic backup of Consul state
- [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy): deploy backup voting Consul servers to efficiently improve Consul fault tolerance
#### Scalability
- [Read Replicas](/docs/enterprise/read-scale): deploy non-voting Consul servers to enhance the scalability of read requests
#### Operational Simplification
- [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades)
- [Network Infrastructure Automation with Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise](/docs/nia/enterprise)
- [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades): ease upgrades by automating the transition from existing to newly deployed Consul servers
- [Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise](/docs/nia/enterprise): leverage the enhanced network infrastructure automation capabilities of the enterprise version of Consul-Terraform-Sync
#### Complex Network Topology Support
- [Advanced Federation for Complex Network Topologies](/docs/enterprise/federation)
- [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments)
- [Network Areas](/docs/enterprise/federation): support complex network topologies between federated Consul datacenters with pairwise federation rather than full mesh federation
- [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments): support complex network topologies within a Consul datacenter by enforcing boundaries in Consul client gossip traffic
#### Governance
- [OIDC Auth Method](/docs/security/acl/auth-methods/oidc)
- [Audit Logging](/docs/enterprise/audit-logging)
- [Sentinel](/docs/enterprise/sentinel)
- [OIDC Auth Method](/docs/security/acl/auth-methods/oidc): manage user access to Consul through an OIDC identity provider instead of Consul ACL tokens directly
- [Audit Logging](/docs/enterprise/audit-logging): understand Consul access and usage patterns by reviewing access to the Consul HTTP API
- [Sentinel for KV](/docs/enterprise/sentinel): policy-as-code framework for defining advanced key-value storage access control policies
# Gain Access to Enterprise Features
### Self-Managed Consul
To gain access to Consul Enterprise features in a self-managed installation,
[apply a purchased license](/docs/enterprise/license/overview)
to the Consul Enterprise binary that grants access to the desired features.
### HCP Consul
No action is required to gain access to Consul Enterprise features in a
HashiCorp Cloud Platform installation.
# Consul Enterprise Feature Availability
Consul Enterprise is offered in several forms that provide a different mix of enterprise features.
Choose the form that best suits the needs of your organization.
Available enterprise features per Consul form and license include:
| Feature | [HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul] | [Consul Enterprise] | Legacy Consul Enterprise (module-based) |
| -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Consul servers as a managed service | Yes | No (self-managed) | No (self-managed) |
| [Admin Partitions](/docs/enterprise/admin-partitions) | Standard tier and above | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
| [Namespaces](/docs/enterprise/namespaces) | Standard tier and above | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
| [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups) | All tiers | Yes | Yes |
| [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [Read Replicas](/docs/enterprise/read-scale) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades) | All tiers | Yes | Yes |
| [Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise](/docs/nia/enterprise) | | Yes | Yes |
| [Network Areas](/docs/enterprise/federation) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments) | | Yes | With Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module |
| [OIDC Auth Method](/docs/acl/auth-methods/oidc) | | Yes | Yes |
| [Audit Logging](/docs/enterprise/audit-logging) | Standard tier and above | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
| [Sentinel for KV](/docs/enterprise/sentinel) | All tiers | Yes | With Governance and Policy module |
[HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul]: https://cloud.hashicorp.com/products/consul
[Consul Enterprise]: https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/

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This feature requires version 1.7.0+ of
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires version 0.9.3+ of
self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires
self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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This feature requires version 1.8.0+ of
self-managed Consul Enterprise.
Refer to the{' '}
<a href="/docs/enterprise/feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
for additional information.
</EnterpriseAlert>

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"title": "Sentinel",
"path": "enterprise/sentinel"
},
{
"title": "Feature Availability",
"path": "enterprise/feature-availability"
},
{
"title": "License",
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