Azure Key Vault Valuable Features

Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

The solution is very easy to use. It provides us with security.

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.

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Kevin McAllister - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Manager at Hexagon AB

I find the simplicity of key management to be the most valuable feature. Key management has always been a difficult function to do, especially in the cloud premises. Azure Key Vault provides you with a mechanism for managing keys, without having to worry about protecting secrets, and that is valuable.

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Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Key management is very easy and simple. We need not look for a different solution. It is available to us by default through Microsoft. The tool is highly secure and very easy to manage. We can integrate the product seamlessly.

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Krishnanunni M - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature of the solution in our company stems from the fact that it is easy to integrate with our codes. The support and SLAs provided by Microsoft for Azure Key Vault are good. The aforementioned areas consist of some of the basic advantages of Azure Key Vault. Azure Key Vault is nice to store the secrets of in a concealed manner.

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JA
IT Project Manager at Orange España

The solution does an excellent job of storing and retrieving our stored keys.

It has a favorable UI.

Azure Key Vault has good integrations with other solutions we use, as we operate a Microsoft Azure environment.

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AS
System and network security engineer at Central Bank of Nigeria

It's quite easy to use. That's one very important feature.

For additional features, you can always bring your own key (BYOK) or use your own key instead of Azure Key Vault.

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MICHEL RACT-MUGNEROT - PeerSpot reviewer
Personal business manager at La Mairic

It provides a secure and centralized location for managing and protecting sensitive information, making it an essential component for enhancing the security.

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RajGohel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use.

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SP
VP - Global Delivery Head at Enhops

We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret. Azure Key Vault is a stable solution that seamlessly integrates with other services.

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Piyush_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Cosultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

The features on offer are very good.

We are using Key Vault as an optical store for the sensitive data and then retrieve the data and use access policies. So access to policies is quite valuable for us based on the regulations and compliance requirements that we are working with.

There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us.

Perforamnce-wise, it's very good. We haven't had any issues in the past three years. There are no errors or downtime. It's always been available to us.

Microsoft's Key Vault availability is around 99%.

A lot of new features have been added, and it has nice regional availability as well. 

It is stable and scales well.

Technical support has been fine overall. 

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ST
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The application properties and the ability to store our certificates too have been great aspects of the solution. 

Mainly, having the application properties where all our applications' configurations were stored in the key vault was very useful.

The initial setup is pretty simple. 

The stability is very good.

The solution can scale up as needed. 

The solution offers very reasonable pricing. 

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SreekanthaDevayya Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Lucid Spare

The centralized storage and secure storage are features we like. We don't find many effective solutions where we can securely store the encryption keys. So that is essentially, that is what we appreciate.

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Oleksandr Tymoshyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Security Division at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The product’s advantageous feature is integration.

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Erick Oliveira Da Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature of the solution is the search for secrets feature that we use to store our passwords and connection strings. I also like objects such as keys and certificates.

Azure Key Vault is simpler to use compared to other certificate or password managers such as HashiCorp Vault and ManageEngine Password Manager Pro.

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RB
Associate Vice President - Cloud Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The GUI was quite easy for me to use.

Integration with Fortanix is good.

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GM
Senior Lead Software Engineer Individual Contributor at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to store secrets securely and encrypt them. It is pretty easy and straightforward to use.

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Deepak Kumar Software - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Rishabh Software

Azure Key Vault's performance is excellent. It makes infrastructure management easier. 

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RV
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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.

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DineshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at Rackspace

Azure Key Vault securely stores passwords and secrets, eliminating the need to share them. Instead, access can be provided to users who log in with their own credentials. Integration with Azure services and third-party applications is seamless, as it's readily available and requires no specific deployment. Automatic retrieval of keys and certificates simplifies usage across different platforms. Overall, Azure Key Vault offers efficient key storage and management with easy integration across various services and applications.              

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Veerender Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Software Technology

The product is very helpful. AI has been introduced to Azure. The services are being introduced thoroughly in Azure, especially in AI and IoT.

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Srinivas Reddy Katta - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at IdeaBytes

Azure Key Vault allows only identified users to get the credentials and rotates the keys automatically.

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Marios Christodoulou - PeerSpot reviewer
DB and Systems Engineer at JCC Payment Systems Ltd

The most valuable feature of Azure Key Vault is the secret storage of data.

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RB
Founder & Principal Architect at NCompas Business Solutions Inc.

The DevOps pipelines and the ease with which you can deploy the code through the CI/CD pipelines have been valuable features.

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Jawed Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Systems at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology

It is a good solution. I use it to deploy my services. All the features are valuable. The access policy feature helps secure content and resources. We use the automated key rotation feature to secure the deployments and the development process. It can be used to secure resources. The availability is high. We can integrate the tool with VMs, storage, and Azure App Service.

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SB
Owner at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The access policies are the solution's most valuable aspect.

The solution is very stable.

The scalability is very good.

The pricing of the product is reasonable.

Technical support is helpful.

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RL
Managing Director Cybersecurity Architecture at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable aspect of the product is its ability to keep our admin password accounts for keys and a lot of our high-value assets. It can manage those types of assets. So far, the product does a great job of managing keys.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The stability has been very good. We've been happy with it so far.

The security on offer seems to be quite good. 

The solution offers very good preferences.

We've found the pricing to be better than our last solution.

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SR
Co Founder & CTO at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud.

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Konstantin K - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisory Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault are the security and convenience of changing passwords in multiple places.

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SK
Cloud Architect at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

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.

You can also use it in different services across the board. If you have app services, or virtual machines, Kubernetes, or Databricks, they can all use Key Vault effectively. In my opinion, in a DevSecOps, DevOps, or even in a modern Azure implementation, you have to use Azure Key Vault to make sure you're addressing security and identity management concerns. By "identity" I mean usernames, passwords, cryptography, et cetera. 

It's also a regional solution and it frees you up from using third parties like HashiCorp Vault, for example.

In addition, there is a feature in Azure called managed identities, and when storing your credential or any keys or secrets in that you can have your code use managed identities to access Key Vault. That simplifies the whole process of connecting to Key Vault and retrieving your secrets, passwords, and credentials. 

It's a full-blown solution and it supports most breeds of key management: how you store keys and certify. 

I can't say that one of its features is better than others. You have to have all of them to make it a competent service, although one of the especially important features is the connection with monitoring and logging, so you can see who had access to what.

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PS
DevOps Lead at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration. It's integrated into Azure API Management and Azure DevOps or directly into code. It supports various environments.

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BH
Infrastructure Manager\Enterprise Architect - Cloud at Red Wing Shoes

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.

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CA
Information System Security Engineer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best feature is the integrity of the .NET applications in our company.

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AT
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a managed service in Azure, you do not have to worry about security other than the access. The vaults themselves are inherently secure.

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Prince Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Infrastructure consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The solution uses the encryption technique to store the secret information data that uses EPCE. There is also one feature that monitors Azure Key Vault.

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RC
CyberSecurity Director of Intelligence at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Among the features that have helped improve our security posture are storing secrets in a secure location to create a trusted situation, trusted resources, and incorporating identity access management so that we know who has access to what.

In addition, it hasn't affected our end-user experience. It's seamless.

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Karim Zaki - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Cybersecurity specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Azure Key Vault's most valuable feature is its ability to store security certificates securely. It allows me to run applications using these certificates without directly installing them.

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SP
Director of Business Intelligence at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable features are ease of use and enabling our clients to manage keys.

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SS
Associate Consultant at VXXIV Corp

This is a very user friendly solution and the security level is very high.

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Buyer's Guide
Azure Key Vault
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Azure Key Vault. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.