We performed a comparison between Azure Key Vault and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution is the search for secrets feature that we use to store our passwords and connection strings."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Key Vault is the secret storage of data."
"The security on offer seems to be quite good."
"The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
"Considering the features provided by the product, I would say that the solution is available at a good price point."
"The platform provides straightforward integration with most of the other Azure services."
"I am satisfied with the product overall."
"If you want to replicate a website at the frontend in Azure, it's very easy to do it globally."
"We can centralize and manage everything much more effectively with this tool."
"The way the laptops are joined is valuable. We can take advantage of that in terms of being able to log in and do things. It is easier to change passwords or set things up."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Entra ID are the login and the conditional access pieces."
"Let's say we decide that our users need to have MFA, multi-factor authentication. It is very easy to implement that with Azure Active Directory."
"Single sign-on is the reason we use AD."
"It has been stable, and we haven't had any issues since we started to use it."
"Entra ID can be deployed using a hybrid model for organizations with a significant on-premises presence, or in a fully cloud-based setup for those that do not."
"Users should be able to segregate the passwords."
"There's room for improvement in cross-platform compatibility."
"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."
"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."
"It needs to offer dynamic secrets management."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve its cost."
"I think something that is key would be the group policies replication over the cloud, in order to prevent or to avoid relying on the on-premise Active Directory servers and to manage group policies."
"Documentation I think is always the worst part with what Azure's doing right now across the board."
"Azure Active Directory could be made easier to use. We have large amounts of data and storage. We are looking for video files and media content for applications, we will think about options, such as cloud storage or a CDN."
"Microsoft needs to add a single setup, so whenever resources join the company or are leaving the company, all of the changes can be made with a single click."
"Microsoft should work on enhancing its machine-learning algorithm to prevent unnecessary lockouts of users."
"From time to time it takes a little bit of time to replicate, with some of the applications—something like five to 10 minutes. I know that the design is not supposed to enable real-time replication with some of the applications. But, as an administrator, I would like to run a specific change or modification in Azure Active Directory and see it replicated almost immediately."
"Maybe there could be a dashboard view for Active Directory with some pie or bar charts on who is logged in, who is not logged in, and on the activity of each user for the past few days: whether they're active or not active."
"Everything should be in one package. There are so many different packages. They need to provide guidance because there are so many features and we don't know how to implement them in our organization."
Azure Key Vault is ranked 11th in Microsoft Security Suite with 46 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 4th in Microsoft Security Suite with 190 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. 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 Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, AWS Certificate Manager and Bitwarden, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity. See our Azure Key Vault vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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