We compared AWS Certificate Management and Azure Key Vault based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, AWS Certificate Management offers simplicity, comprehensive security, and efficient automation, with a focus on excellent customer service. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault is praised for its security measures, ease of use in managing secrets, and favorable pricing structure. However, users suggest improvements in access management, user interface, and error handling for Azure Key Vault.
Features: AWS Certificate Management is praised for its simplicity, comprehensive security measures, and seamless integration with other services. In contrast, Azure Key Vault is known for its excellent security measures, ease of use in managing secrets and certificates, and efficient key management capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: The setup costs for AWS Certificate Management and Azure Key Vault products are described as reasonable by users. AWS provides flexible licensing options, while Azure Key Vault offers a straightforward deployment and configuration process. Both products offer transparent pricing structures and favorable experiences with licensing., AWS Certificate Management has been reported to provide favorable ROI with cost savings and improved security. Its automated certificate renewal stands out. Azure Key Vault enhances ROI through secure storage, seamless integration, increased efficiency, and convenience.
Room for Improvement: AWS Certificate Management could improve the user interface intuitiveness, managing multiple certificates, flexibility in certificate options, integration with AWS services, and documentation. Azure Key Vault could enhance access management, user interface, error handling, and access permissions control.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that the duration required to establish a new tech solution with AWS Certificate Management varies among users, with some requiring a longer timeframe. In contrast, user feedback for Azure Key Vault indicates a similar variation in duration, but with some users mentioning separate timeframes for deployment and setup., AWS Certificate Management consistently receives high praise for its exceptional customer service and support. Users appreciate the prompt, reliable, and knowledgeable assistance they receive, and the support team is commended for their problem-solving skills and willingness to go the extra mile. On the other hand, Azure Key Vault is also known for its effective and reliable customer service, with users expressing satisfaction with the level of assistance and responsiveness provided by the team.
The summary above is based on 22 interviews we conducted recently with AWS Certificate Management and Azure Key Vault users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution has an import dashboard where we can import the certificates or create new certificates."
"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."
"Its customer service is excellent."
"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 solution's technical support is good. My company received support from Microsoft whenever we needed it."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault are the security and convenience of changing passwords in multiple places."
"Azure Key Vault allows only identified users to get the credentials and rotates the keys automatically."
"The AWS Certificate Manager's technical support team is sometimes unavailable."
"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."
"I would rate the stability of Microsoft Azure Key Vault an eight out of ten. We use the solution in the data science field. If there is some outage, we did not notice any prolonged outage which would affect our business significantly while working with it."
"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 would be great if Azure allowed more third-party vendors into the ecosystem."
"Azure Key Vault is only available for Microsoft services, and it should be exposed to non-Microsoft cloud services, like GCP and Amazon."
"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."
"The solution's usage can be a little better from the user interface point of view."
"There's room for improvement in cross-platform compatibility."
AWS Certificate Manager is ranked 2nd in Certificate Management Software with 1 review while Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Certificate Management Software with 46 reviews. AWS Certificate Manager is rated 10.0, while Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Certificate Manager writes "Used to import and manage the SSL and TLS certificates". 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 Certificate Manager is most compared with DigiCert CertCentral and Jetstack cert-manager, whereas Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password.
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