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# Securing Applications

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## Transport Layer Security (TLS)

* **Note**\
  SPIRE is not supported on Amazon ECS.
* **Note**\
  You won't be able to use SPIRE to distribute your certificates if you're using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in Fargate mode.

## Mutual TLS Authentication

* **Note**\
  Using App Mesh, you can configure mutual TLS authentication for communications between Envoy proxies from your services. However, communications between your applications and Envoy proxies are unencrypted.
* **Important**\
  App Mesh doesn't store the certificates or private keys that are used for mutual TLS authentication. Instead, Envoy stores them in memory.


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