diff --git a/terraform/aws/README.md b/terraform/aws/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..441afe34c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/aws/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+## Running the aws templates to set up a consul cluster
+
+The platform variable defines the target OS, default is ubuntu, rhel6 is an option
+
+For AWS provider, set up your AWS environment as outlined in https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
+
+To set up ubuntu based, run like below, replace key_name and key_path with actual values
+
+terraform apply -var 'key_name=consul' -var 'key_path=/Users/xyz/consul.pem'
+
+or 
+
+terraform apply -var 'key_name=consul' -var 'key_path=/Users/xyz/consul.pem' -var 'platform=ubuntu'
+
+To run rhel6, run like below
+
+terraform apply -var 'key_name=consul' -var 'key_path=/Users/xyz/consul.pem' -var 'platform=rhel6'
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diff --git a/terraform/aws/consul.tf b/terraform/aws/consul.tf
index 9a2c5fcf7e..d1c57d9bb8 100644
--- a/terraform/aws/consul.tf
+++ b/terraform/aws/consul.tf
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 resource "aws_instance" "server" {
-    ami = "${lookup(var.ami, var.region)}"
+    ami = "${lookup(var.ami, concat(var.region, "-", var.platform))}"
     instance_type = "${var.instance_type}"
     key_name = "${var.key_name}"
     count = "${var.servers}"
     security_groups = ["${aws_security_group.consul.name}"]
 
     connection {
-        user = "ubuntu"
+        user = "${lookup(var.user, var.platform)}"
         key_file = "${var.key_path}"
     }
 
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ resource "aws_instance" "server" {
     }
 
     provisioner "file" {
-        source = "${path.module}/scripts/upstart.conf"
+        source = "${path.module}/scripts/${var.platform}/upstart.conf"
         destination = "/tmp/upstart.conf"
     }
 
     provisioner "file" {
-        source = "${path.module}/scripts/upstart-join.conf"
+        source = "${path.module}/scripts/${var.platform}/upstart-join.conf"
         destination = "/tmp/upstart-join.conf"
     }
 
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ resource "aws_instance" "server" {
 
     provisioner "remote-exec" {
         scripts = [
-            "${path.module}/scripts/install.sh",
-            "${path.module}/scripts/server.sh",
-            "${path.module}/scripts/service.sh",
+            "${path.module}/scripts/${var.platform}/install.sh",
+            "${path.module}/scripts/${var.platform}/server.sh",
+            "${path.module}/scripts/${var.platform}/service.sh",
         ]
     }
 }
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/install.sh b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/install.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da40412785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# Read the address to join from the file we provisioned
+JOIN_ADDRS=$(cat /tmp/consul-server-addr | tr -d '\n')
+
+echo "Installing dependencies..."
+sudo yum update -y
+sudo yum install -y unzip wget
+
+echo "Fetching Consul..."
+cd /tmp
+wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.2_linux_amd64.zip -O consul.zip
+
+echo "Installing Consul..."
+unzip consul.zip >/dev/null
+sudo chmod +x consul
+sudo mv consul /usr/local/bin/consul
+sudo mkdir -p /etc/consul.d
+sudo mkdir -p /mnt/consul
+sudo mkdir -p /etc/service
+
+# Setup the join address
+cat >/tmp/consul-join << EOF
+export CONSUL_JOIN="${JOIN_ADDRS}"
+EOF
+sudo mv /tmp/consul-join /etc/service/consul-join
+chmod 0644 /etc/service/consul-join
+
+echo "Installing Upstart service..."
+sudo chown root:root /tmp/upstart.conf 
+sudo chown root:root /tmp/upstart-join.conf
+sudo mv /tmp/upstart.conf /etc/init/consul.conf
+sudo mv /tmp/upstart-join.conf /etc/init/consul-join.conf
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/server.sh b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/server.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..80057cbf81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/server.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# Read from the file we created
+SERVER_COUNT=$(cat /tmp/consul-server-count | tr -d '\n')
+
+# Write the flags to a temporary file
+cat >/tmp/consul_flags << EOF
+export CONSUL_FLAGS="-server -bootstrap-expect=${SERVER_COUNT} -data-dir=/mnt/consul"
+EOF
+
+# Write it to the full service file
+sudo mv /tmp/consul_flags /etc/service/consul
+sudo chown root:root /etc/service/consul
+sudo chmod 0644 /etc/service/consul
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/service.sh b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/service.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from terraform/aws/scripts/service.sh
rename to terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/service.sh
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/upstart-join.conf b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/upstart-join.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from terraform/aws/scripts/upstart-join.conf
rename to terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/upstart-join.conf
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/upstart.conf b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/upstart.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c050dc011
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/aws/scripts/rhel6/upstart.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+description "Consul agent"
+
+start on runlevel [2345]
+stop on runlevel [!2345]
+
+respawn
+# This is to avoid Upstart re-spawning the process upon `consul leave`
+normal exit 0 INT
+
+script
+  if [ -f "/etc/service/consul" ]; then
+    . /etc/service/consul
+  fi
+
+  # Make sure to use all our CPUs, because Consul can block a scheduler thread
+  export GOMAXPROCS=`nproc`
+
+  # Get the public IP
+  BIND=`ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{ print substr($2,6) }'`
+
+  exec /usr/local/bin/consul agent \
+    -config-dir="/etc/consul.d" \
+    -bind=$BIND \
+    ${CONSUL_FLAGS} \
+    >>/var/log/consul.log 2>&1
+end script
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/install.sh b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/install.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from terraform/aws/scripts/install.sh
rename to terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/install.sh
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/server.sh b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/server.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from terraform/aws/scripts/server.sh
rename to terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/server.sh
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/service.sh b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/service.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..7c186e97ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/service.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo "Starting Consul..."
+sudo start consul
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/upstart-join.conf b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/upstart-join.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..16343d8759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/upstart-join.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+description "Join the consul cluster"
+
+start on started consul
+stop on stopped consul
+
+task
+
+script
+  if [ -f "/etc/service/consul-join" ]; then
+    . /etc/service/consul-join
+  fi
+
+  # Keep trying to join until it succeeds
+  set +e
+  while :; do
+    logger -t "consul-join" "Attempting join: ${CONSUL_JOIN}"
+    /usr/local/bin/consul join \
+      ${CONSUL_JOIN} \
+      >>/var/log/consul-join.log 2>&1
+    [ $? -eq 0 ] && break
+    sleep 5
+  done
+
+  logger -t "consul-join" "Join success!"
+end script
diff --git a/terraform/aws/scripts/upstart.conf b/terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/upstart.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from terraform/aws/scripts/upstart.conf
rename to terraform/aws/scripts/ubuntu/upstart.conf
diff --git a/terraform/aws/variables.tf b/terraform/aws/variables.tf
index 2d92711f64..94c0e310f7 100644
--- a/terraform/aws/variables.tf
+++ b/terraform/aws/variables.tf
@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
-variable "ami" {
+variable "platform" {
+    default = "ubuntu"
+    description = "The region of AWS, for AMI lookups."
+}
+
+variable "user" {
     default = {
-        us-east-1 = "ami-3acc7a52"
-        us-west-2 = "ami-37501207"
+        ubuntu = "ubuntu"
+        rhel6 = "ec2-user"
+    }
+}
+
+variable "ami" {
+    description = "AWS AMI Id, if you change, make sure it is compatible with insatnce type, not all AMIs allow all insatnce types "
+    default = {
+        us-east-1-ubuntu = "ami-83c525e8"
+        us-west-2-ubuntu = "ami-57e8d767"
+        us-east-1-rhel6 = "ami-b0fed2d8"
+        us-west-2-rhel6 = "ami-2faa861f"
     }
 }
 
@@ -24,10 +39,16 @@ variable "servers" {
 }
 
 variable "instance_type" {
-    default = "m1.small"
-    description = "The instance type to launch."
+    default = "t2.micro"
+    description = "AWS Instance type, if you change, make sure it is compatible with AMI, not all AMIs allow all insatnce types "
 }
+
 variable "tagName" {
     default = "consul"
     description = "Name tag for the servers"
-}
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+}
+
+variable "platform" {
+    default = "ubuntu"
+    description = "The OS Platform"
+}