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.
"Integrating with other services was straightforward, especially within the AWS environment."
"It's highly scalable, so I'd rate it a ten out of ten."
"AWS Secrets Manager is used for storing secret information that has to be a secret from your customer and your employees."
"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 product is easy to use and is inexpensive."
"All our workloads are running on AWS, so integration with our workload is much easier on AWS Secrets Manager than going with another solution such as Thycotic."
"The API is fine and works well."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault are the security and convenience of changing passwords in multiple places."
"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 is valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud."
"The solution does an excellent job of storing and retrieving our stored keys."
"The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
"The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
"It is a managed service in Azure, you do not have to worry about security other than managing your own identities."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"If you don't have enterprise support, then you will not be able to get through to them to get the help. It is not only applicable to AWS Secrets Manager. It is also applicable to any service on AWS."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"It would be good if the AWS Secrets Manager were more customizable."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"To make it a ten the setup should be more streamlined."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve reliability and protection."
"There are additional charges for data transfers. However, the pricing is mostly reasonable for the licensing overall."
"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."
"Users should be able to segregate the passwords."
"The big problem with Azure Key Vault is key rotation. We haven't found a good way to synchronize the credentials between the databases and Key Vault."
"The slow response from the support team is one of the shortcomings of the solution that needs to be improved."
AWS Secrets Manager is ranked 2nd 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, Delinea Secret Server and BeyondTrust Password Safe, 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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