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 its seamless integration with various AWS services."
"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 most valuable feature is security."
"Integrating with other services was straightforward, especially within the AWS environment."
"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."
"The API is fine and works well."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"AWS Secrets Manager is used for storing secret information that has to be a secret from your customer and your employees."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use."
"The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
"We only use the basic features and those are the ones that have the ability to tie into the app, the secrets, and the passwords and encrypt them."
"The solution can scale up as needed."
"It allows me to run applications using these certificates without directly installing them."
"AI has been introduced to Azure."
"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 most valuable feature of Azure Key Vault is the secret storage of data."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"If you add one more layer of security to AWS Secrets Manager, even the programmer will not be able to see the secrets."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"The platform's configuration process could be easier."
"I would like more code examples."
"Azure Key Vault is only available for Microsoft services, and it should be exposed to non-Microsoft cloud services, like GCP and Amazon."
"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."
"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."
"The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself."
"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."
"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."
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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