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.
"Azure Key Vault is very affordable, with charges of less than a dollar for over ten thousand keys."
"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."
"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."
"Azure Key Vault's performance is excellent. It makes infrastructure management easier."
"Considering the features provided by the product, I would say that the solution is available at a good price point."
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"The tool is highly secure and very easy to manage."
"AI has been introduced to Azure."
"We were using it because we have compliance requirements around secret management. Having a secure vault and encrypting data was an additional requirement. When we looked at it first, we were just looking for a vault, like a lockbox. 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 most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."
"It's stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"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."
"We use the solution for secret management."
"The interface is very simple to navigate."
"It is an added value for our customers to have a Secrets Management workflow available that is PaaS/CaaS/KaaS Platform agnostic."
"I would like more code examples."
"The solution's usage can be a little better from the user interface point of view."
"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."
"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."
"If I consider how some people complain that a solution to store information should be available at a low cost, I would say that Azure Key Vault's price should be made cheaper."
"Users should be able to segregate the passwords."
"We encountered a few problems where Azure had infrastructure problems like the DMS."
"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."
"The onboarding is a challenge. It should be more self-service, but it involves reviews and approvals."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"The product needs to improve its customization. It should be also more like easy to plug and play."
"I would rate the stability a six out of ten. There are some bugs and glitches. We are in touch with the vendor to resolve them."
"The product is complicated to install."
"The technical support was hard to get a hold of and lacking in service."
"A drawback for some clients who have to be PCI compliant is that they still need to use and subscribe to an HSM (Hardware Security Module) solution."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
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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