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Azure Resource Manager vs Idira Identity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 2, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Resource Manager
Ranking in Cloud Resource Access Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Idira Identity
Ranking in Cloud Resource Access Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Authentication Systems (9th), Identity Management (IM) (9th), Authorization Software (2nd), Enterprise Password Managers (9th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (10th), Access Management (7th), Active Directory Management (6th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Resource Access Management category, the mindshare of Azure Resource Manager is 16.7%, down from 38.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Idira Identity is 15.1%, up from 7.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Resource Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Resource Manager16.7%
Idira Identity15.1%
Other68.2%
Cloud Resource Access Management
 

Featured Reviews

MohammedAbdulAleem - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom
Provides unified resource visibility and supports compliance requirements
Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration. For example, if I have a cloud management portal from a private cloud provider such as Morpheus from HPE or other private cloud portals, and Azure Resource Manager could integrate with other clouds to give us unified resource utilization or management, that would be really good. Currently, it supports only Microsoft to Microsoft backend and does not support heterogeneous environments; it only supports homogeneous ones. Looking towards the future, I would like to see additional features or improvements in Azure Resource Manager because nowadays companies are going with a multi-cloud model. I am looking for unification of other clouds inside Azure Resource Manager.
Hariharan Thangasamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Delivery Analyst at Accenture
Has strengthened privileged access control and improved audit visibility through session monitoring and password rotation
On the identity product side, it is awesome. However, they can improve in the documentation parts. For example, if there is a migration process, I can see the maximum customers are moving from self-hosted to on-premises or from on-premises to the cloud. It would be helpful if they released a generalized document for processes such as migration. A clear overview document would assist us in understanding more about the tool, configurations, and automations to enhance our security. Regarding the initial setup of CyberArk Identity, I faced some challenges. At some points, I could not find proper documentation for deploying, enhancing, or integrating with other components. I could not find the proper documentation in the community portal.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Azure Resource Manager is extremely user-friendly and easy to deploy and understand."
"The solution is user friendly and it's easy to manage reserve incentives and to automate resources."
"ARM templates make parameterizing and using variables in your DevOps pipeline easy."
"Azure Resource Manager's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent."
"Azure Resource Manager's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent; Azure Stack Hub is very compliant with CSA, Q-Cert, 27107, and 27018, which is fantastic when it comes to data sovereignty and private cloud offering."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy, as the documentation and information were very good."
"The Azure Resource Manager is complete, where we can manage all the resources."
"The most valuable feature is the vast resources available online."
"Being able to integrate CyberArk Identity with Microsoft Defender is valuable."
"As soon as it is implemented, it fundamentally changes how users access systems, providing immediate security benefits."
"The initial setup of CyberArk Identity was straightforward."
"The UI is very simplified, and the documentation of CyberArk Identity is very crisp and clear."
"What I like most about CyberArk Identity is the model that is in place."
"We haven't encountered any problems with respect to the stability of this solution; it is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of CyberArk Identity is the adaptive interface."
"The solution helps with auditing, and monitoring, and integrates with Splunk for log analysis. User activity logs are captured in CyberArk Identity and sent to external tools like Splunk for analysis and monitoring."
 

Cons

"Unlike Terraform, Azure Resource Manager is hard to maintain and modularize and has room for improvement."
"Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration."
"They have created multiple roles, but I would rather they simplify the roles they already have. The main goal is to work with efficient data. Their support could also be better."
"At a group level, if I apply a policy, it gets cascaded to all the resources underneath it, but it is not possible when it comes to tags. When I apply tags at a group level, it should go to the resource under it."
"Compared to ARM templates, Terraform is often preferred because it is more versatile and user-friendly. With Terraform, you can create a single, generic script that works across multiple cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and even Oracle Cloud. This eliminates the need to write separate scripts for each platform."
"I'm not at all happy with their support. Over the years, whenever we raised an issue, we never got clear and understandable support."
"They can maybe improve the interface."
"The latency has room for improvement."
"The product needs to leverage the cloud more, especially in the financial sector, where cloud adoption might be limited. Proper reporting within the cloud is essential. The tool should be more user-friendly to expedite access for users. The current agent-based system poses challenges if a user loses access to the server, making tasks difficult to perform. It should also improve technical support."
"The product is not cheap, especially if you opt for an on-premise deployment requiring a complex server infrastructure. On the other hand, choosing the software as a service version simplifies infrastructure requirements but necessitates being online all the time."
"CyberArk Identity could improve by having the ability to better manage the network, such as Cisco. There seem to be some issues in this area."
"The reporting functionality is somewhat complicated."
"CyberArk Identity's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"One area for improvement is the complexity of the learning curve for new users."
"Some areas experience slowness based on the workload. There's a need to enhance network performance despite the good user experience with access management."
"At the moment CyberArk needs to enrich Conjur and it needs to be made more viable so that its adoption can be made much faster."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is open-source."
"We pay $15,000 to $20,000 a month for the service and it is worth the cost."
"The pricing is acceptable. It is worth considering what we are protecting with the amount charged."
"We find that the pricing and licensing of this solution is adequate, as compared to the other competitors in the market."
"CyberArk Identity is an expensive solution."
"The pricing of CyberArk Identity is competitive."
"It's not that affordable compared to Delinea or other products. They're less expensive and allow more customization. For the cost, it is expensive."
"There could be some additional costs apart from the licensing costs of the solution when you want to develop connectors in CyberArk Identity."
"There is an initial license and then there is a subscription needed."
"I think it is a fairly priced tool. I rate the tool between six and seven on a scale of one to ten where one is expensive, and ten is cheap."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
17%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Resource Manager?
About the pricing, it is expensive. Maintaining Azure Stack Hub is not easy because it is expensive, though it depends on customer to customer. If the customer is looking for a secure, compliant cl...
What needs improvement with Azure Resource Manager?
Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration. For example, if I have a cloud management portal from a private cloud provider such as Mor...
What is your primary use case for Azure Resource Manager?
In dealing with something like Site Recovery or Azure Bastion or Azure AI Foundry, we are having a very minimal type of implementation that is only four nodes. Microsoft Azure Resource Manager is b...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CyberArk Identity?
I am not certain about CyberArk Identity's exact pricing model. For comparison, Okta was around five dollars per user. CyberArk Identity offers good discounts to some clients, which influences thei...
What needs improvement with CyberArk Identity?
We do not specifically use the password vaulting feature of CyberArk Identity. The centralized user dashboard of CyberArk Identity has not been that important for us. If it would be possible to sha...
What is your primary use case for CyberArk Identity?
It's not being purchased through AWS, but we're using CyberArk Identity as a SaaS solution. I think it's running on AWS, but we bought it directly from CyberArk.
 

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Sample Customers

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MLB, Citi, Pfizer, SulAmerica, GE Capital, Shiseido
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