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Azure Key Vault vs BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

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 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 (19th)
BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets ...
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
22nd
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
7th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (39th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of Azure Key Vault is 15.8%, down from 20.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe is 1.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Key Vault15.8%
BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe1.6%
Other82.6%
Enterprise Password Managers
 

Featured Reviews

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.
YB
Contractor at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Integrates well between AD and Unix, scalable, and easy to use
BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe stability in the AD Bridge has been not good, we have had many issues. I recently received a new version a few weeks ago and it looks like they solved most of the problems. Some of the issues we had, lasted a very long time until they found a solution.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Azure Key Vault is the secret storage of data."
"This solution speeds up the product development life cycle; the time from product development to market is drastically reduced because of the CI/CD pipelines, and you can have your code deployed within a matter of minutes."
"The GUI was quite easy for me to use."
"Overall, it's a great product."
"The tool is highly secure and very easy to manage."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use."
"The product rating is ten out of ten."
"This is a very user friendly solution and the security level is very high."
"Secrets Safe is highly scalable without interruptions to the current infrastructure."
"They've done a great job implementing all possible features; it's the best tool there is and no competitors come close to the level of sophistication and maturity of the product."
"The local administrator can manage all the user's logins in one, simple, straight-away account access. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe are the ease of use and the API is very nice. Additionally, the interface is very good between AD and Unix."
"BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe has made companies a lot safer."
"A sophisticated and mature solution."
"The local administrator can manage all the user's logins in one, simple, straight-away account access, and the solution is user-friendly."
"DevOps Secrets Safe allows you to customize a lot of rules."
 

Cons

"The integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process."
"I can see that other people are doing the infrastructure as code, they are able to easily manage and cycle their passwords as needed using their own interface they created. It would be nice if Microsoft provided more guidance in that area."
"The rotation of key needs improvement."
"Microsoft Azure Key Vault could improve by enhancing the security of credentials."
"Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format."
"We've experienced issues with configuration."
"While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority."
"The initial setup could be less complex for first-time users."
"We had some issues with the solution and once we contacted support they eventually solved the problem. They could improve their response time."
"The solution is relatively stable, but not all bugs have been fixed."
"BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe stability in the AD Bridge has been not good, we have had many issues."
"The support for the solution is not very good, they could improve by being quicker."
"The product contains some bugs."
"You need to improvise many of the customized rules, which can lead to some errors. BeyondTrust should reduce the error rate."
"You need to improvise many of the customized rules, which can lead to some errors. BeyondTrust should reduce the error rate."
"The support for the solution is not very good, they could improve by being quicker."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use a pay-as-you-go license for the solution, which is not very expensive."
"The price of the product is okay for my company."
"The product has good pricing."
"You don't need to pay for a license for Azure Key Vault. It is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis."
"The pricing is decent. It has a pretty low price. It is a straightforward cost based on usage."
"I find the pricing of Azure Key Vault to be reasonable."
"The price of the solution is reasonable for what we are using it for."
"The product is affordable, in my opinion."
"There is an annual license required to use BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
34%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
University
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise27
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Questions from the Community

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...
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Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Key Vault, MS Azure Key Vault
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Sample Customers

Adobe, DriveTime, Johnson Controls, HP, InterContinental Hotels Group, ASOS
Starbucks, Ebay, CSC, RBC, Williams-Sonoma, Carbonite
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