Azure Key Vault Reviews & Product Details

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service designed to securely store and manage cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates used by applications and services. It enables organizations to safeguard sensitive information such as API keys, passwords, and connection strings, ensuring that these secrets are protected and accessible only to authorized users and applications. By centralizing the management of keys and secrets, Azure Key Vault helps maintain compliance with security standards and simplifies the administration of cryptographic materials. Key Features and Functionality: - Secrets Management: Securely store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets. - Key Management: Easily create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. - Certificate Management: Provision, manage, and deploy public and private Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) certificates for use with Azure and your internal connected resources. - Access Control: Integrates with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to provide fine-grained access control through role-based access control (RBAC) and access policies. - Monitoring and Logging: Monitor and audit key usage with Azure logging—pipe logs into Azure HDInsight or your security information and event management (SIEM) solution for more analysis and threat detection. - Integration with Azure Services: Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services, such as Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, and Azure App Service, allowing applications to retrieve and use secrets, certificates, and keys securely without needing to store sensitive information in application code or configuration files. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Azure Key Vault addresses the critical need for secure and efficient management of cryptographic keys and secrets in cloud environments. By centralizing the storage and access control of sensitive information, it reduces the risk of accidental leaks and unauthorized access. The service simplifies the process of key and secret management, allowing developers to focus on application development without the burden of implementing custom security solutions. Additionally, Azure Key Vault enhances compliance with security standards and regulations by providing robust access controls, monitoring capabilities, and integration with Azure's security ecosystem.

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Liridon S.

Software Developer

Consulting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/27/2026

"Centralized, Secure Secret Management with Seamless Azure Integration"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

What I like most about Azure Key Vault is that it offers a centralized, secure place to manage secrets, keys, and certificates. It also integrates smoothly with other Azure services, which makes it easier to avoid keeping sensitive information directly in application configuration files or in the code itself. For our use case, the value is good compared to the cost. The pricing is reasonable considering the security, centralized secret management, and integration with other Azure services. For larger environments with many secrets and applications, the benefits can justify the additional cost, although the cost may be harder to justify for smaller or less complex projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

The biggest downside for me is that it can take a while to fully understand and correctly configure permissions, access policies, and authentication. It can also feel overly complex for smaller applications, and troubleshooting access-related problems isn’t always straightforward or easy to pinpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Key Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Key Vault helps us securely store and manage sensitive information like connection strings, API keys, certificates, and other secrets. It reduces the need to keep credentials in application code or configuration files, which makes access management simpler and safer. I also like having a centralized place to manage secrets and rotate them when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Durgesh P.

Technical Lead - Cloud & DevOps Practice

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/31/2025

"Key and secret management"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

Easy to use, integrate and secure is the best part of AKV Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

Key and secret expiry notification could be enhancement that they should think upon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek D.

Cloud Implementation Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 1/27/2024

"Keep your secrets safe on Azure cloud with Key Vault."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

1. Keeps secrets, certificates, Api Keys, PATs, passwords safe and sound.

2. Supports role based access control and only authorized users can push and retrieve secrets.

3. Easy to retrieve secrets via Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub actions workflow.

4. Seamlessly integrates with various other Azure as well as Third party apps.

5. Provides expiry date feature so the password can be expired at a given period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

Initial implementation and setup such as enabling Private access only can be a bit tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kshitij D.

SDE-1

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/1/2024

"Azure key vault review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

The best feature is it's easy integration with the applications as well with the azure kubernetes cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

Cross cloud integratof azure key vault is very complex and often give many errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Athithanambi A.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/20/2024

"Security for all secret in Azure cloud for all resources"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

Ease to maintain the secret securely in the cloud. Access policy and RBAC are well configured to key access to resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

Complex to maintain the connectivity when we implement private link. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aashi G.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/29/2024

"Best for keeping passwords and secrets"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

Azure key vault is very helpful as we can securely keep our passwords and secrets in keyvault. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

sometimes using azure keyvault , was not able to run bot on local environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav P.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/14/2023

"Secured vault for storing secrets"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

We can store the secrets in the key-value format in a secure way. Accessing these secrets is easy and compliant. When there is a change in the value of the secret, then we don't need to make changes in the actual code or service where we are accessing this secret; changes in the Key Vault will reflect everywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

There is nothing to dislike here, but one thing I can think of is a User Interface where they can provide the option to search the keys; we can achieve this using the search option of the browser, but it will be good if they can embed it in the Key Vault. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhavesh N.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2023

"Azure Key vault for secret management"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

easy to integrate with our azure resources like app service, secure for storing key and secrets with API based calling, safe authentication method. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

Great product no cons for now from my end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rupak R.

Technical Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/23/2023

"Most secure place to save secrets and certificates"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Key Vault?

This is a great online tool offered by Microsoft Azure. Which helps to save all of our secrets to one places in the encrypted format. And we can change any time these by creating versions. We are using it in our applications hosted on Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Key Vault?

I don't think there is anything to dislike this. One thing I can say it can be little simplify the process to use it easily with other applications to secure the secrets. Although Microsoft has a good documentation around there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.