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docs	ACL System	docs-internals-acl	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.

ACL System

This content has been moved into the ACL Guide.

See Complete ACL Coverage in Consul 0.8 for details about ACL changes in Consul 0.8 and later.