1--- 2layout: "docs" 3page_title: "ACL System" 4sidebar_current: "docs-internals-acl" 5description: |- 6 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. 7--- 8 9# ACL System 10 11This content has been moved into the [ACL Guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/security-networking/production-acls). 12 13<a name="version_8_acls"></a> 14See [Complete ACL Coverage in Consul 0.8](/docs/acl/acl-legacy.html) 15for details about ACL changes in Consul 0.8 and later. 16