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.
"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."
"The platform provides straightforward integration with most of the other Azure services."
"The solution's technical support is good. My company received support from Microsoft whenever we needed it."
"We use Azure Key Vault to store secrets."
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use."
"AI has been introduced to Azure."
"The GUI was quite easy for me to use."
"It is an added value for our customers to have a Secrets Management workflow available that is PaaS/CaaS/KaaS Platform agnostic."
"We use the solution for secret management."
"The solution is stable. It has been working perfectly without any problem."
"It is user-friendly and easy to implement from any application point."
"The interface is very simple to navigate."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is that it's an open source solution. Second, it's cloud agnostic, so it's very easy to maintain and control, which is why we prefer HashiCorp."
"The product is free and easy to use. It is well documented with an easy implementation process."
"If the region where the Azure Key Vault data center is hosted goes down, it would be a cumbersome task since our company will have to come up with a different Azure Key Vault and migrate all the secrets or keys into it."
"While it's very reliable in terms of stability, there's always room for improvement."
"The solution needs to improve reliability and protection."
"The voucher access policy can be improved by configuring it based on groups, rather than just applications or users."
"The platform's configuration process could be easier."
"The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself."
"The slow response from the support team is one of the shortcomings of the solution that needs to be improved."
"If multiple clouds are to be used it can be difficult and a third party should assist in the implementation."
"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 solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"There could be a plugin for the database to change the secret automatically. It would be an efficient feature for password security."
"I would like to see better integration of HashiCorp Vault with SAP products."
"The product needs to improve its customization. It should be also more like easy to plug and play."
"The solution could be much easier to implement."
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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