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layout: docs
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page_title: Consul Enterprise
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sidebar_title: Consul Enterprise
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description: >-
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Consul Enterprise features a number of capabilities beyond the open source
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offering that may be beneficial in certain workflows.
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---
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# Consul Enterprise
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[Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul) features ease the complexity of operating Consul at
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organizational scale by automating common operator workflows. It introduces capabilities for expanding
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performance scalability, resiliency, and cluster lifecycle. It also adds support for application and service
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architectures across complex network topologies. If you have already purchased Consul Enterprise, please
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see the [licensing section](#licensing) below.
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Features include:
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- [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups)
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- [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades)
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- [Enhanced Read Scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale)
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- [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy)
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- [Advanced Federation for Complex Network Topologies](/docs/enterprise/federation)
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- [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments)
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- [Namespaces](/docs/enterprise/namespaces)
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- [Sentinel](/docs/enterprise/sentinel)
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These features are part of [Consul
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Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul).
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## Licensing
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Licensing capabilities were added to Consul Enterprise v1.1.0. The license is set
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once for a datacenter and will automatically propagate to all nodes within the
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datacenter over a period of time scaled between 1 and 20 minutes depending on the
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number of nodes in the datacenter. There are two methods for licensing Consul
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enterprise.
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### Included in the Enterprise Package
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If you are downloading Consul from Amazon S3, then the license is included
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in the binary and you do not need to take further action. This is the
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most common use case.
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In the S3 bucket you will find three Enterprise zip packages. The packages with `+pro` and
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`+prem` in the name, are the binaries that include the license. The package
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with `+ent` in the name does not include the license.
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### Applied after Bootstrapping
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If you are downloading the enterprise binary from the [releases.hashicorp.com](https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/) or the `+ent` package from Amazon S3, you will need to apply
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the license to the cluster, after completing the bootstrapping process.
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You can set the license on any agent within the cluster and it will be
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forwarded to the leading server via the RPC forwarding functionality.
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Below are your two options for setting the license file.
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You can set the license via the
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[API](/api/operator/license) or the [CLI](/docs/commands/license). When
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you first start Consul, a 30-minute temporary license is available to allow you
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time to license the datacenter. You should set the license within ten minutes of
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starting the first Consul process to allow time for the license to propagate.
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