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Jawed Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Systems at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Provides excellent features to secure content and resources and has high availability
Pros and Cons
  • "The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
  • "The product must provide AI features."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for saving keys. We use it to manage encryption keys and secrets in our applications.

What is most valuable?

It is a good solution. I use it to deploy my services. All the features are valuable. The access policy feature helps secure content and resources. We use the automated key rotation feature to secure the deployments and the development process. It can be used to secure resources. The availability is high. We can integrate the tool with VMs, storage, and Azure App Service.

What needs improvement?

The product must provide AI features.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for three to four years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool has high stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool’s scalability is high. Our clients are small, medium, and enterprise businesses.

How are customer service and support?

The support must be improved.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy. The deployment took a few minutes.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is normal. The product is neither cheap nor expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I am an implementer and designer. I will recommend the product to others to keep keys, secrets, and related information secure. Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Manish  Purohit - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Green Point Technology Services (I) Pvt. Ltd
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Helps to store secrets but needs improvement in cost
Pros and Cons
  • "We use Azure Key Vault to store secrets."
  • "The solution needs to improve its cost."

What is our primary use case?

We use Azure Key Vault to store secrets. 

What needs improvement?

The solution needs to improve its cost. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate Azure Key Vault's stability a ten out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product's scalability is perfect. My company has around 100-200 users for the solution. 

How was the initial setup?

The tool's installation is straightforward. 

What about the implementation team?

We did the solution's deployment in-house. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the tool a ten out of ten. 

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reviewer1580196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Reasonably priced with good technical support and easy scaling capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "Technical support is helpful."
  • "It needs to offer dynamic secrets management."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for key management.

What is most valuable?

The access policies are the solution's most valuable aspect.

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is very good.

The pricing of the product is reasonable.

Technical support is helpful.

What needs improvement?

The rotation of key needs improvement. It needs to offer dynamic secrets management.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for about a year or so. It hasn't been that long.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution can scale well. It's not a problem at all. If a company needs to expand it, it can.

Our clients tend to be enterprises, and aren't overly small. 

How are customer service and technical support?

You do need a support agreement, however, from what I have seen, it's quite reliable and knowledgeable. It's easy to reach them and to work with them.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup has a moderate amount of difficulty. It's neither extremely straightforward nor overly difficult.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

You do need a special agreement in order to receive technical support.

While I don't directly deal with pricing, my understanding is that it's okay, and not too expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are currently looking at other solutions in order to compare them. We are also using HashiCorp Terraform and looking into HashiCorp Vault.

What other advice do I have?

We are just a customer and an end-users. We tend to use the solution for our clients.

For those companies that want to work with the solution, I'd advise that they consider the use of and integration with Azure's pipeline.

Overall, I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've largely been quite happy with its capabilities.

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reviewer1389924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & CTO at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Easy to set up and the technical support is awesome
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud."
  • "Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies."

What is our primary use case?

I am a system architect and this is one of the products that I work with when designing systems for our customers. This key vault allows you to store passwords and secret keys so that you can retrieve them when needed. Each customer will have their own secret password that can be used in a cloud-based scenario to retrieve their login usernames, passwords, and other secrets.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud.

What needs improvement?

Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies. For example, we are not a big corporation that can afford corporate-level pricing. We have to strike a balance between the number of users and the volume of keys that are being used.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the Microsoft Azure Key Vault for close to two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable product and I haven't had any issues. The performance decreases as many keys are added to the vault. For example, it will be slow if we have 1,000 users.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is related to the licensing plan. At some point, the number of keys that can be stored will run out until the vault plan is upgraded.

How are customer service and technical support?

The product support is awesome and I don't have any issues with it.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Azure is the first key vault that we have used.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. It is not complex, although it takes weeks to implement because we have to integrate with other modules.

What about the implementation team?

Our in-house team handles deployment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of the Azure Key Vault is very high and the pricing model is based on the number of keys that you store and retrieve. It is billed in blocks, such as 1,000 passwords that I can store. However, if I am paying to store information for 1,000 users then the pricing is not discounted if I only need to store 500.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I am currently evaluating HashiCorp Vault because it is more economical than Azure Key Vault.

What other advice do I have?

In summary, this is a good product and one that I recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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reviewer2382042 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Top 20
Increased the security of our organization
Pros and Cons
  • "I would say it's granular controller who can access them."
  • "We've experienced issues with configuration."

What is our primary use case?

We have an application connecting to the database. So we have implemented an authentication in place wherein without that particular secret value, it won't be authenticated. So that is a use case that I can tell you about Azure Key. We have implemented it for some small identity providers as well. 

How has it helped my organization?

Using Azure key Vault has increased the security of our organization. 

What is most valuable?

I would say its granular access control is the most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

It would be great if it would integrate with other cloud solutions.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Azure Key Vault for the past 2 years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I think the stability works perfectly. I've never seen a block from the cloud side. But there might be some problems when we are configuring it. So maybe we are missing some strings or something, but I have never seen an issue from the cloud side.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

A thousand people using the solution at present.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?


How was the initial setup?

You have to configure based on, like, who should access routers, security should be generated, the identity management and everything. And Azure Microsoft people have provided a good documentation on it. They have provided a good labs also and good videos also for reference. So I believe everything is good on that part.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Data engineer at Inicon S.r.l.
Real User
Top 10
Easy-to-setup product helping us improve compliance and auditing processes
Pros and Cons
  • "The platform provides straightforward integration with most of the other Azure services."

    What is our primary use case?

    The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to store secret information.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    Azure Key Vault has been a crucial component in securing sensitive information within our organization. It includes storing critical details such as usernames, passwords, and other confidential data.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    It is a simple service. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

    How was the initial setup?

    The service is easy to set up. However, the process requires various details, such as access controls and permissions. It includes determining who can create, read, or modify secrets. Overall, it is relatively easy and can be efficiently deployed through templates into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The product is inexpensive.

    What other advice do I have?

    The platform provides straightforward integration with most of the other Azure services. It has improved the compliance and auditing processes. Earlier, we had to either store secret information inside the application or develop a custom solution to comply with it. There was a high chance of the data getting corrupted as different people had access to it.

    I rate Azure Key Vault an eight out of ten.

    Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
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    reviewer1329546 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
    Real User
    Secures DevOps processes and stores secrets
    Pros and Cons
    • "The integration with other Azure services is one of the standout features for me. It allows us to use secrets from the Azure Key Vault seamlessly without direct interaction.Additionally, the ability to easily mark secrets for expiration and receive notifications is invaluable."
    • "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."

    What is our primary use case?

    I primarily use the solution to secure our DevOps processes and store all the essential secrets for our project's services.

    What is most valuable?

    The integration with other Azure services is one of the standout features for me. It allows us to use secrets from the Azure Key Vault seamlessly without direct interaction.Additionally, the ability to easily mark secrets for expiration and receive notifications is invaluable.

    What needs improvement?

    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.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using Azure Key Vault for about three years. 

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten. 

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    I rate Azure Key Vault's scalability an eight out of ten. My company has more than 50 users. We use it daily. 

    How was the initial setup?

    I rate the tool's deployment an eight out of ten. It takes less than a minute to complete. You need two resources to handle it; no maintenance is involved since it is a managed service. 

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten. 

    What other advice do I have?

    I rate the tool an eight out of ten. 

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Public Cloud
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    reviewer2329650 - PeerSpot reviewer
    DevOps Lead at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
    Real User
    Top 5
    Stable platform with efficient integration features
    Pros and Cons
    • "The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
    • "Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format."

    What is our primary use case?

    We integrate Azure Key Vault to Azure DevOps for configuration automation. It allows selected access to the client IDs. Centralizing these keys ensures developers don't have direct access to sensitive information. Instead, the platform management team or developers can securely retrieve these keys during the pipeline execution.

    What is most valuable?

    The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration. It's integrated into Azure API Management and Azure DevOps or directly into code. It supports various environments.

    What needs improvement?

    Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    We have been using Azure Key Vault for four to five years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    I have been using it for five years, and it has been a stable product.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    We have more than 100 Azure Key Vault users in our organization. It is a scalable product in terms of adding keys.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The product costs much less compared to other vendors.

    What other advice do I have?

    Azure Key Vault is easy to use. It is a best practice and must be used within architecture implementation for security. I rate it an eight out of ten.

    Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: customer/partner
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