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 API is fine and works well."
"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its seamless integration with various AWS services."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"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."
"Integrating with other services was straightforward, especially within the AWS environment."
"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."
"It's highly scalable, so I'd rate it a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault are the security and convenience of changing passwords in multiple places."
"There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us."
"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."
"The security on offer seems to be quite good."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use."
"This solution speeds up the product development life cycle. That is, the time from the development of the product to the time to market is drastically reduced because of the CI/CD pipelines. You can have your code deployed within a matter of minutes."
"AI has been introduced to Azure."
"The solution can scale up as needed."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"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."
"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."
"One of my previous clients was one of the big banks here in the Netherlands and the EU courts have stated that Microsoft Azure Key Vault is not, according to their perspective, secure due to the fact that Microsoft has access to Key Vault."
"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."
"Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies."
"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."
"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."
"The voucher access policy can be improved by configuring it based on groups, rather than just applications or users."
"The initial setup could be less complex for first-time users."
"Currently, our company has to add the secrets manually, one by one, in Azure Key Vault, which is a tedious process."
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, 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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