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Akeyless Secrets Management vs Azure Key Vault comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.8
Organizations report up to 70% efficiency improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management, focusing on automation and centralized management benefits.
Sentiment score
7.1
Azure Key Vault delivers ROI through cost-efficiency, enhanced security, compliance, and centralized management, improving organizational security and access control.
Operational effort has been reduced as it automated credential management.
SDE-1 at arya.ag
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.0
Akeyless Secrets Management's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though some users desire faster response times.
Sentiment score
6.9
Azure Key Vault support is praised for responsiveness and knowledge, though some experience communication issues and delays reaching experts.
The customer support is good, but it is somewhat slower compared to other support systems.
Sr.Devops engineer at Scaler
Technical support from Azure responds as quickly as possible without any delay.
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have a strong relationship with Microsoft since we are one of their best clients in Spain.
Software Architect at RedesCDM
The skill level of the support staff is also questionable.
IT Director at Infosys
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.1
Akeyless Secrets Management efficiently scales across environments, supporting diverse applications and cloud setups with positive scalability feedback.
Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Key Vault is scalable, cloud-based, suitable for enterprises, but requires improved integration; users rate scalability highly.
Akeyless Secrets Management is scalable because it can manage secrets across multiple applications, environments, and team members from a single platform.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
Akeyless Secrets Management supports thousands of applications, users, and secrets, which demonstrates that it is highly scalable.
SDE-1 at arya.ag
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Akeyless Secrets Management is highly stable and reliable, with no significant downtime, ensuring smooth workflows and user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
8.1
Azure Key Vault is highly reliable, rated 8-10, with minor performance issues as usage increases, outperforming competitors in stability.
In my experience, Akeyless Secrets Management is stable so far, and I have not found any hard points that I could say are negative.
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Akeyless Secrets Management needs improved documentation, UI/UX, pricing transparency, advanced cryptography, and faster support for better usability.
Azure Key Vault needs an intuitive interface, improved integration, enhanced security, optimized pricing, and better support and accessibility.
This would ensure that the cloud providers maintain mathematically inaccessible telemetry to third parties, presenting a significant improvement in zero-knowledge cryptography.
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Akeyless Secrets Management works excellently for what it aims to do.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced.
Sr.Devops engineer at Scaler
My security area wants to rotate passwords every day, every week, or every month, depending on the services.
Software Architect at RedesCDM
One of our certificates was not getting deployed, and during that time, the support team was unsure and had to connect with the back-end team for assistance.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global
The skill level of the support staff is also questionable.
IT Director at Infosys
 

Setup Cost

Azure Key Vault pricing varies by usage, seen as cost-effective versus competitors, though some find it expensive.
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Akeyless Secrets Management, if the product is excellent, cost usually is not a problem.
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I would classify it as low priced.
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The pricing of Azure Key Vault is nominal, not that expensive.
Associate Vice President (Data Security & Protection - Confidential AI) at Standard Chartered Bank
We are planning to buy protection for Entra.
IT Director at Infosys
 

Valuable Features

Akeyless Secrets Management centralizes secure access with zero-knowledge architecture, dynamic secrets, and automated rotation for multi-cloud environments.
Azure Key Vault offers secure, scalable secret management with easy integration, featuring advanced protection, role-based access, and DevOps support.
The rotation of secrets aspect of Akeyless Secrets Management is excellent. It allows for much higher security and there is a great reduction in potential exploits or attacks to our infrastructure because it is very difficult to get compromised credentials when they rotate so regularly.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted my organization as it helped store our secrets in a right way, in a proper controlled way where you can view, update, and at the same time, it helps in updating the passwords very effectively in the cloud running environment.
Sr. Software engineer at Fedex
Akeyless Secrets Management offers centralized secret management that stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and SSH keys.
SDE-1 at arya.ag
All secrets are in the Key Vault, and access is managed by the integrated management in ITT, which Azure provides to the services.
Software Architect at RedesCDM
It also helps me increase my security posture and assists with regulatory and compliance requirements.
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Since implementing Azure Key Vault, I have observed that instead of storing plain values, we can store them securely as and when required.
Software Engineer at Synoptek
 

Categories and Ranking

Akeyless Secrets Management
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
12th
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
AI Security (15th)
Azure Key Vault
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
1st
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Certificate Management Software (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of Akeyless Secrets Management is 1.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Key Vault is 13.3%, down from 18.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Key Vault13.3%
Akeyless Secrets Management1.7%
Other85.0%
Enterprise Password Managers
 

Featured Reviews

Aditya Sasmal - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized secrets have improved risk control but governance and documentation still need work
Akeyless Secrets Management can be improved by focusing on strategic areas of product enhancements to elevate it from a robust operational tool to a frictionless enterprise standard product. Development must prioritize maturity in release governance, user interface intuitiveness, and developer documentation. Addressing these areas will directly reduce friction and accelerate enterprise-wide adoption. More documentation should be included in the governance and quality assurance aspects because properly organized documents create a significant impact on the product. Akeyless Secrets Management could improve its zero-knowledge cryptography capabilities, as the documentation is still lacking. The use of distributed fragments cryptography can be enhanced by splitting encryption key fragments between Valmet's local gateways and Akeyless Secrets Management cloud. This would ensure that the cloud providers maintain mathematically inaccessible telemetry to third parties, presenting a significant improvement in zero-knowledge cryptography.
Rajthilak BS - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President (Data Security & Protection - Confidential AI) at Standard Chartered Bank
Have addressed compliance challenges but still struggle with seamless integration of certificate issuance between environments
In terms of Azure Key Vault improvements, we have to compare the competitor. If we consider AWS, our bank has Microsoft PKI, which is a Microsoft product, for the entire digital certificate infrastructure. Even in the cloud, when it is AWS, the internal certificates are MS PKI. When we had a problem, users had to come to on-premise to get a certificate and import it to AWS Certificate Manager and assign it. We wondered why we could not issue the certificate directly from the cloud for cloud users. There was a simple way in AWS. They have a Private Certificate Authority (PCA) and Amazon Certificate Manager. Private Certificate Authority issues certificates to Amazon services. They also provide Amazon Certificate Manager to store and deploy certificates. These are two neat components - one is an issuer and another is storage and deployment solutions for certificates. With PCA, I can directly enable it and get certificates from AWS itself. AWS can issue SSL/TLS certificates if you enable it directly. If you consider Azure, it is not very clear. Even the naming convention, Key Vault, might not suggest that this is a PKI or certificate manager. You cannot issue certificates directly. They have app certificates and did not have a clear-cut certificate management solution in the cloud when I worked at that time. I am not sure whether they have updated Azure Key Vault as a full-fledged PKI solution now. From what I saw, it was not a full-fledged PKI solution. We are not majorly using Azure Key Vault because it is only for storing secrets. If some solutions can provide guidance on how we can maximize leverage, we can immediately look forward to doing that. We already have some business problems we want to solve. While our primary focus is AWS, many of the services such as ADO are running on Azure, and the secondary services are growing bigger.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise28
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me. The documentation and tutorials must include end-to-end examples for Kubernetes and CI/...
What is your primary use case for Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management is used to store secrets such as database credentials and TransUnion certificates for the production environment. For example, a team stores PostgreSQL usernames and pas...
What advice do you have for others considering Akeyless Secrets Management?
The advice that I would personally give regarding Akeyless Secrets Management is that before adopting any secrets management platform, you should define what your security and compliance requiremen...
Which is better - Azure Key Vault or AWS Secrets Manager?
Azure Key Vault is a SaaS solution. You can easily store passwords and secrets securely and encrypt them. Azure Key Vault is a great solution to ensure you are compliant with security and governanc...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Key Vault?
Based on my three years of experience, I believe there have been no updates to Azure Key Vault. I think the product needs upgrades in terms of access control and certification improvements. While A...
 

Also Known As

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Microsoft Azure Key Vault, MS Azure Key Vault
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Cimpress
Adobe, DriveTime, Johnson Controls, HP, InterContinental Hotels Group, ASOS
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