We compared AWS Certificate Management and Azure Key Vault based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, AWS Certificate Management offers simplicity, comprehensive security, and efficient automation, with a focus on excellent customer service. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault is praised for its security measures, ease of use in managing secrets, and favorable pricing structure. However, users suggest improvements in access management, user interface, and error handling for Azure Key Vault.
Features: AWS Certificate Management is praised for its simplicity, comprehensive security measures, and seamless integration with other services. In contrast, Azure Key Vault is known for its excellent security measures, ease of use in managing secrets and certificates, and efficient key management capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup costs for AWS Certificate Management and Azure Key Vault products are described as reasonable by users. AWS provides flexible licensing options, while Azure Key Vault offers a straightforward deployment and configuration process. Both products offer transparent pricing structures and favorable experiences with licensing., AWS Certificate Management has been reported to provide favorable ROI with cost savings and improved security. Its automated certificate renewal stands out. Azure Key Vault enhances ROI through secure storage, seamless integration, increased efficiency, and convenience.
Room for Improvement: AWS Certificate Management could improve the user interface intuitiveness, managing multiple certificates, flexibility in certificate options, integration with AWS services, and documentation. Azure Key Vault could enhance access management, user interface, error handling, and access permissions control.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that the duration required to establish a new tech solution with AWS Certificate Management varies among users, with some requiring a longer timeframe. In contrast, user feedback for Azure Key Vault indicates a similar variation in duration, but with some users mentioning separate timeframes for deployment and setup., AWS Certificate Management consistently receives high praise for its exceptional customer service and support. Users appreciate the prompt, reliable, and knowledgeable assistance they receive, and the support team is commended for their problem-solving skills and willingness to go the extra mile. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault is also known for its effective and reliable customer service, with users expressing satisfaction with the level of assistance and responsiveness provided by the team.
The summary above is based on 22 interviews we conducted recently with AWS Certificate Management and Azure Key Vault users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution has an import dashboard where we can import the certificates or create new certificates."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It only took a few minutes."
"The solution can scale up as needed."
"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."
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"Azure Key Vault's performance is excellent. It makes infrastructure management easier."
"The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
"The AWS Certificate Manager's technical support team is sometimes unavailable."
"While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority."
"If you check the capabilities of other key management services across Amazon, HashiCorp, and Google, there are features that Key Vault doesn't have. It could be the case that when you use Key Vault, you might be forced to use a third-party solution to get certain services. If those services could be included in Key Vault, there would be diminished reasons to go for a third-party key management system."
"It needs to offer dynamic secrets management."
"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."
"The integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process."
"Better integration with other third-party cloud providers, such as AWS and GCP, should be there. That's something I expect from a Microsoft-built product."
"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."
"We encountered a few problems where Azure had infrastructure problems like the DMS."
AWS Certificate Manager is ranked 2nd in Certificate Management Software with 1 review while Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Certificate Management Software with 46 reviews. AWS Certificate Manager is rated 10.0, while Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Certificate Manager writes "Used to import and manage the SSL and TLS certificates". 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 Certificate Manager is most compared with DigiCert CertCentral and Jetstack cert-manager, whereas Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password.
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