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See [`disable_anonymous_signature`](/docs/agent/options.html#disable_anonymous_signature)
and [`disable_update_check`](/docs/agent/options.html#disable_update_check).
## Q: How does Atlas integration work?
Hosted Consul Enterprise in Atlas was officially deprecated on March 7th,
2017.
There are strong alternatives available and they are listed below.
For users on AWS the [-retry-join-ec2 configuration options](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_retry_join_ec2_tag_key) allow bootstrapping by automatically discovering AWS instances with a given tag key/value at startup. For users not on AWS the native [-join and retry-join functionality](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_join) can be used.
Other features of Consul Enterprise, such as the UI and Alerts also have suitable open source alternatives.
For replacing the UI, we recommend the [free UI packaged as part of Consul open source](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_ui). A live demo can be access at [https://demo.consul.io/ui/](https://demo.consul.io/ui/).
For replacing alerts, we recommend the [open source Consul alerts daemon](https://github.com/acalephstorage/consul-alerts). This is not maintained or supported by HashiCorp, however there is active development from the community.
## Q: Does Consul rely on UDP Broadcast or Multicast?
Consul uses the [Serf](https://www.serf.io) gossip protocol which relies on
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## Q: What is the per-key value size limitation for Consul's key/value store?
The limit on a key's value size is 512KB. This is is strictly enforced and a
The limit on a key's value size is 512KB. This is is strictly enforced and an
HTTP 413 status will be returned to any client that attempts to store more
than that limit in a value. It should be noted that the Consul key/value store
is not designed to be used as a general purpose database. See
[Server Performance](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/performance.html) for
more details.