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page_title: ACL System
description: >-
  Consul provides an optional Access Control List (ACL) system which can be used
  to control access to data and APIs. The ACL system is a Capability-based
  system that relies on tokens which can have fine grained rules applied to
  them. It is very similar to AWS IAM in many ways.
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# ACL System

This content has been moved into the [ACL Guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/security-networking/production-acls).

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See [Complete ACL Coverage in Consul 0.8](/docs/acl/acl-legacy) for details
about ACL changes in Consul 0.8 and later.