We compared AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
AWS Secrets Manager focuses on efficient secret rotation and comprehensive audit trail capabilities, while Azure Key Vault highlights excellent security measures and seamless integration with Azure services. AWS Secrets Manager received positive feedback on customer service and offers competitive pricing, while Azure Key Vault excels in key management and scalability. Users suggest AWS Secrets Manager can improve documentation and integration, while Azure Key Vault users desire enhanced access management and user interface.
Features: AWS Secrets Manager excels in its ability to secure, integrate with AWS services, efficiently manage secrets, and provide an audit trail. Azure Key Vault, on the other hand, offers strong security measures, seamless integration with Azure services, ease of use in managing secrets and certificates, and efficient key management. It is also highly available, scalable, and offers comprehensive monitoring and auditing functionalities.
Pricing and ROI: AWS Secrets Manager offers competitive pricing for its setup process, with flexible licensing options. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault provides a favorable experience in terms of transparent pricing, straightforward setup cost, and seamless licensing. Users find both products efficient and user-friendly in managing their costs and acquiring licenses., AWS Secrets Manager provides positive ROI with secure management of secrets and credentials, automated secret rotation, enhanced security, and seamless integration with AWS services. Azure Key Vault offers improved ROI with secure storage and management of sensitive information, seamless integration with Azure services, increased efficiency in accessing and managing keys and secrets, and robust security measures.
Room for Improvement: AWS Secrets Manager could improve documentation, examples, integration with other services, and user interface intuitiveness. Azure Key Vault could enhance access management, user interface, error handling, and provide clearer error messages.
Deployment and customer support: According to user feedback, the duration for setting up a new tech solution varies for both AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault. While some users mentioned separate timeframes for deployment and setup with Azure Key Vault, others stated that both phases refer to the same period with AWS Secrets Manager., The customer service for AWS Secrets Manager has received positive feedback for its prompt and helpful assistance, while Azure Key Vault is praised for its effective and reliable support and responsiveness.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is the ability to keep data secret and assign access permissions to people to grant or restrict access."
"The product is easy to use and is inexpensive."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The API is fine and works well."
"All our workloads are running on AWS, so integration with our workload is much easier on AWS Secrets Manager than going with another solution such as Thycotic."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and enabling our clients to manage keys."
"The GUI was quite easy for me to use."
"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."
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
"The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
"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."
"It provides a secure and centralized location for managing and protecting sensitive information, making it an essential component for enhancing the security."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"It would be good if the AWS Secrets Manager were more customizable."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."
"We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS."
"If you don't have enterprise support, then you will not be able to get through to them to get the help. It is not only applicable to AWS Secrets Manager. It is also applicable to any service on AWS."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"It is complicated to use different services and products along with Azure Key Vault."
"The solution needs to improve reliability and protection."
"The initial setup could be less complex for first-time users."
"Users should be able to segregate the passwords."
"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."
"Azure has great documentation, but I would like to see more use cases pertaining to specific industries. For example, case studies on how to use HIPAA compliant solutions in the healthcare industry or how to use PCI compliant data analytics solutions in the financial technology industry would be helpful."
"Many times, the first round of support itself will fail, and they will bring some more competent people in the subsequent support. So it gets into a hierarchical mode. By then, we will lose a good amount of time. The technical support needs improvement."
"I would rate the stability of Microsoft Azure Key Vault an eight out of ten. We use the solution in the data science field. If there is some outage, we did not notice any prolonged outage which would affect our business significantly while working with it."
AWS Secrets Manager is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Password Managers with 12 reviews while Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 46 reviews. AWS Secrets Manager is rated 8.8, while Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Secrets Manager writes "Seamlessly integrates with various AWS services while offering reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Key Vault writes "Allows us to securely store our keys to prevent unauthorized access to unwanted users". AWS Secrets Manager is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, 1Password, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, Delinea Secret Server and BeyondTrust Password Safe, whereas Azure Key Vault is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, AWS Certificate Manager, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password. See our AWS Secrets Manager vs. Azure Key Vault report.
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