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Azure Key Vault pros and cons

Vendor: Microsoft
4.3 out of 5
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PROS

Azure Key Vault provides a high level of security, offering advanced data protection and encryption capabilities essential for regulated environments.
Its ease of use and seamless integration with other Azure services significantly enhance infrastructure management and development cycle efficiency.
The ability to securely store secrets, manage keys, and handle passwords centrally secures sensitive information effectively.
The reusability and safety of Azure Key Vault's features, such as automatic key rotation and identity access management, bolster security posture.
Azure Key Vault is cost-effective, providing affordability with charges under a dollar for extensive key usage.

CONS

Azure Key Vault needs to improve integration with non-Microsoft cloud providers like AWS and GCP.
There are frequent complaints about the complexity and frustration associated with its setup and configuration process.
Improved security and stability are necessary as it has reported outages and infrastructure problems.
Technical support requires enhancement as initial support often fails and escalation takes time.
Azure Key Vault's pricing should be made more affordable to reduce dependency on third-party solutions.
 

Azure Key Vault Pros review quotes

reviewer1532262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 17, 2021
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.
Piyush_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
May 15, 2023
There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us.
Mayur B N - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 26, 2024
The product's integration capabilities are good.
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reviewer1800207 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 1, 2022
Among the features that have helped improve our security posture are storing secrets in a secure location to create a trusted situation, trusted resources, and incorporating identity access management so that we know who has access to what.
CA
Oct 11, 2021
The best feature is the integrity of the .NET applications in our company.
AliMohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 29, 2024
With Azure Key Vault, we can generate our own keys and then import them inside the system, which provides a higher level of security than provider-managed keys.
Prince Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2024
The solution uses the encryption technique to store the secret information data that uses EPCE. There is also one feature that monitors Azure Key Vault.
RL
Mar 20, 2021
The security on offer seems to be quite good.
Atal Upadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 28, 2024
The solution's technical support is good. My company received support from Microsoft whenever we needed it.
DineshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 1, 2024
Azure Key Vault is very affordable, with charges of less than a dollar for over ten thousand keys.
 

Azure Key Vault Cons review quotes

reviewer1532262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 17, 2021
If you check the capabilities of other key management services across Amazon, HashiCorp, and Google, there are features that Key Vault doesn't have. It could be the case that when you use Key Vault, you might be forced to use a third-party solution to get certain services. If those services could be included in Key Vault, there would be diminished reasons to go for a third-party key management system.
Piyush_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
May 15, 2023
There are additional charges for data transfers. However, the pricing is mostly reasonable for the licensing overall.
Mayur B N - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 26, 2024
Currently, our company has to add the secrets manually, one by one, in Azure Key Vault, which is a tedious process.
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reviewer1800207 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 1, 2022
One of my previous clients was one of the big banks here in the Netherlands and the EU courts have stated that Microsoft Azure Key Vault is not, according to their perspective, secure due to the fact that Microsoft has access to Key Vault.
CA
Oct 11, 2021
The big problem with Azure Key Vault is key rotation. We haven't found a good way to synchronize the credentials between the databases and Key Vault.
AliMohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 29, 2024
It would be great if Azure allowed more third-party vendors into the ecosystem.
Prince Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2024
They should improve its policies, which sometimes reapplied but don't sync properly between the Key vault and the role-based access. When I put some roles on the user side, it sometimes misses the end data to secure.
RL
Mar 20, 2021
While the solution already does a great job of managing keys, the solution could probably look at maybe expanding more into mobile devices and endpoints.
Atal Upadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 28, 2024
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.
DineshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 1, 2024
While it's very reliable in terms of stability, there's always room for improvement.