HashiCorp Vault and Azure Key Vault are competitors in the secret management space. Azure Key Vault holds a competitive edge due to its features that justify costs.
Features: HashiCorp Vault offers robust security with dynamic secrets, fine-grained access control, and flexible deployment options. It is open-source, attracting users who value adaptability. Azure Key Vault provides seamless integration with Azure services, efficient secret lifecycle management, and strong security protocols, enhancing its cloud-based advantages.
Room for Improvement: HashiCorp Vault users suggest improvements in setup intuitiveness, documentation, and policy management. Azure Key Vault users seek enhancements in feature variety, complexity in policy management, and comparison to other cloud providers.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deploying HashiCorp Vault requires expertise and can be complex, though customer service is rated comprehensive. Azure Key Vault offers a smoother deployment, especially for Azure users, with good support noted, though some response times need improvement.
Pricing and ROI: HashiCorp Vault offers competitive setup costs and flexibility due to open-source benefits. Azure Key Vault's pricing, while higher, offers better long-term ROI for Azure-focused environments, with its subscription model aligning with cloud spending strategies.
Microsoft Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based data security and storage service that allows users to keep their secrets safe from bad actors.
Benefits of Microsoft Azure Key Vault
Some of the benefits of using Microsoft Azure Key Vault include:
Reviews from Real Users
Microsoft Azure Key Vault stands out among their competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are the overall robustness of the solution and its ability to protect and manage many different digital asset types. The many features that the solution offers allows users to tailor their experience to meet their specific needs. Its flexibility enables users to accomplish a wide variety of security and identity management related tasks. It empowers users to secure a wide array of assets. Users can keep many different types of secrets away from bad actors.
A cloud architect at a marketing services firm writes, “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. You can also use it in different services across the board. If you have app services, or virtual machines, Kubernetes, or Databricks, they can all use Key Vault effectively. In my opinion, in a DevSecOps, DevOps, or even in a modern Azure implementation, you have to use Azure Key Vault to make sure you're addressing security and identity management concerns. By "identity" I mean usernames, passwords, cryptography, etcetera. It's a full-blown solution and it supports most breeds of key management: how you store keys and certify.”
Roger L., the managing director of Cybersecurity Architecture at Peloton Systems, says, “The most valuable aspect of the product is its ability to keep our admin password accounts for keys and a lot of our high-value assets. It can manage those types of assets. So far, the product does a great job of managing keys.”
HashiCorp Vault is a cloud-agnostic solution used for security and secret management. Its valuable features include integration with other HashiCorp tools, token sharing, open source nature, cloud agnosticism, and on-the-fly encryption management.
The solution provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications. It is free to use, and the interface is simple to navigate. HashiCorp Vault has helped organizations with its multiple authentication methods and RESTful API.
HashiCorp Vault Features
Reviews from Real Users
“The greatest benefit of HashiCorp is its ability to manage encryption on the fly. It provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications, which was really attractive. The lifecycle of a key is so easy to manage in terms of rotating, revoking, and issuing. They have different auth methods, and I tried all different auth methods. It is seamless.”- Project Manager at a comms service provider.
“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. “ - Mohamed A., Lead DevOps Engineer at Etisalat.
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