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 is security."
"AWS Secrets Manager is used for storing secret information that has to be a secret from your customer and your employees."
"The solution is very scalable."
"Integrating with other services was straightforward, especially within the AWS environment."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"The product is easy to use and is inexpensive."
"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 API is fine and works well."
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud."
"The product's integration capabilities are good."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to store secrets securely and encrypt them. It is pretty easy and straightforward to use."
"Azure Key Vault's performance is excellent. It makes infrastructure management easier."
"Azure Key Vault allows only identified users to get the credentials and rotates the keys automatically."
"It is a managed service in Azure, you do not have to worry about security other than managing your own identities."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"If you add one more layer of security to AWS Secrets Manager, even the programmer will not be able to see the secrets."
"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."
"We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"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."
"I would like more code examples."
"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."
"I can see that other people are doing the infrastructure as code, they are able to easily manage and cycle their passwords as needed using their own interface they created. It would be nice if Microsoft provided more guidance in that area."
"Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies."
"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."
AWS Secrets Manager is ranked 3rd 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, BeyondTrust Password Safe and Delinea Secret Server, 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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