We compared HashiCorp Vault and Azure Key Vault based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, HashiCorp Vault is praised for its superb security measures, ease of use, comprehensive functionality, and effective management of secrets and credentials. Azure Key Vault, on the other hand, is highlighted for its excellent security measures, seamless integration with other Azure services, and efficient key management capabilities. Users appreciate the pricing and setup cost of both products, with HashiCorp Vault offering flexibility in licensing options and Azure Key Vault providing transparent pricing structures. While both platforms have received positive feedback on customer service, HashiCorp Vault users have emphasized the prompt and helpful assistance received. In terms of ROI, users have reported significant benefits from both platforms, with HashiCorp Vault providing enhanced security, control over access privileges, improved compliance, and time-saving features, while Azure Key Vault offers secure storage, efficient access to keys and secrets, and increased productivity. Suggestions for improvement include enhancing the user interface, providing better documentation and examples, offering more seamless integration, and improving scalability and performance.
Features: HashiCorp Vault stands out for its comprehensive functionality and effective management of secrets and credentials in an encrypted manner. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault offers excellent security measures, seamless integration with Azure services, and efficient key management capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for HashiCorp Vault is minimal, making it easy to get started. Users appreciate the flexibility and options provided by the product's licensing. Azure Key Vault also offers a favorable experience in terms of setup cost, which is straightforward and easy to deploy. The licensing process is seamless, enabling efficient acquisition and management. Overall, both products have positive feedback on their setup cost and licensing., HashiCorp Vault has proven to offer significant ROI with enhanced security, control over access, compliance, efficiency, and seamless integration. Azure Key Vault offers secure storage, seamless integration, increased efficiency, robust security, convenience, and cost savings.
Room for Improvement: HashiCorp Vault would benefit from improvements in its user interface, documentation, integration capabilities, and scalability. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault needs enhancements in access management, user interface, and error handling, including better access permissions control and clearer error messages.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, both HashiCorp Vault and Azure Key Vault have varying durations for establishing a new tech solution. While some users reported separate timeframes for deployment and setup, others suggested that these phases refer to the same period., Users have expressed satisfaction with the prompt and helpful customer service provided by HashiCorp Vault. Azure Key Vault also offers effective and reliable customer support, with users appreciating the team's assistance and responsiveness.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with HashiCorp Vault and Azure Key Vault users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us."
"Azure Key Vault's performance is excellent. It makes infrastructure management easier."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Key Vault is the secret storage of data."
"It stores sensitive information in an encrypted way. We don't have to worry about data loss or data theft because no one can see our information."
"All its features are really valuable. It's really well thought-out. It's a complete turnkey solution that has all the concerns taken care of, such as access control and management. You can use it in infrastructure as code to create key vaults, APIs, PowerShells, CLIs, even Terraform."
"Azure Key Vault allows only identified users to get the credentials and rotates the keys automatically."
"I would say it's granular controller who can access them."
"The GUI was quite easy for me to use."
"The tool's dynamic rotation of the password credentials is good."
"The feature I find most beneficial in HashiCorp Vault is the secret engine. It integrates smoothly with many applications, making it easy to set up and implement quickly. This allows you to test it easily and see good results rapidly. When you integrate an internal API or application, it quickly manages that application's secrets."
"It's stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"We use the solution for secret management."
"The product is free and easy to use. It is well documented with an easy implementation process."
"It is user-friendly and easy to implement from any application point."
"The interface is very simple to navigate."
"It is a good product to consider for companies who are looking to build on-premise or hybrid infrastructure."
"If I consider how some people complain that a solution to store information should be available at a low cost, I would say that Azure Key Vault's price should be made cheaper."
"It would be great if Azure allowed more third-party vendors into the ecosystem."
"I can see that other people are doing the infrastructure as code, they are able to easily manage and cycle their passwords as needed using their own interface they created. It would be nice if Microsoft provided more guidance in that area."
"If multiple clouds are to be used it can be difficult and a third party should assist in the implementation."
"Currently, our company has to add the secrets manually, one by one, in Azure Key Vault, which is a tedious process."
"Microsoft Azure Key Vault could improve by enhancing the security of credentials. Without the security or the use of key vaults, we would have to configure our credentials into the source code as plain text without the encryption or security."
"We've experienced issues with configuration."
"One area for improvement is the notification system for secret expiration. It would be beneficial if the service could handle this more autonomously, eliminating the need for additional integrations."
"The product needs to improve its customization. It should be also more like easy to plug and play."
"A drawback for some clients who have to be PCI compliant is that they still need to use and subscribe to an HSM (Hardware Security Module) solution."
"I would rate the stability a six out of ten. There are some bugs and glitches. We are in touch with the vendor to resolve them."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations."
"The onboarding is a challenge. It should be more self-service, but it involves reviews and approvals."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"The product is complicated to install."
Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 46 reviews while HashiCorp Vault is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Password Managers with 16 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while HashiCorp Vault is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Key Vault writes "Allows us to securely store our keys to prevent unauthorized access to unwanted users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Vault writes "Useful for machine-to-machine communication and has secret engine feature ". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, AWS Certificate Manager, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password, whereas HashiCorp Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, Keeper, Delinea Secret Server and BeyondTrust Password Safe. See our Azure Key Vault vs. HashiCorp Vault report.
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