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Azure Key Vault vs Pulumi Enterprise comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Key Vault
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (1st), Certificate Management Software (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (18th)
Pulumi Enterprise
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
AI Infrastructure (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Secrets Management Tools category, the mindshare of Azure Key Vault is 38.8%, down from 40.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pulumi Enterprise is 0.6%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Secrets Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Key Vault38.8%
Pulumi Enterprise0.6%
Other60.6%
Secrets Management Tools
 

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.
Shrenik Jobanputra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Infrastructure as code has streamlined AWS deployments and now automates secure resource management
We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work. I suggest ensuring that the higher versions of Pulumi Enterprise always work without issues. When the Pulumi Enterprise seminars and webinars happen, they're always dedicated to other time zones. Having a time zone for Australia Perth time would be nice because all the seminars are always at 2:00 a.m. in the morning for me at Perth or maybe after 5:00 p.m. or before 8:00 a.m. would be ideal. I enjoy attending the Pulumi Enterprise seminars, but they're just at odd times.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I would rate Azure Key Vault 10 out of 10."
"It provides a secure and centralized location for managing and protecting sensitive information, making it an essential component for enhancing the security."
"Azure Key Vault is very affordable, with charges of less than a dollar for over ten thousand keys."
"The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
"The tool is highly secure and very easy to manage."
"Technical support from Microsoft is excellent."
"In summary, this is a good product and one that I recommend."
"It helps me increase my security posture and assists with regulatory and compliance requirements."
"Pulumi Enterprise has allowed us to be much more confident in the code changes that we are actually deploying and releasing, and, as an example, we're now unit testing all of our Pulumi Enterprise infrastructure as part of the CI pipeline, so we know quite confidently that the change is actually going to be successful before it's been deployed, which has been hugely beneficial for us."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively because before Pulumi, we did not have any real infrastructure as code, and having multiple environments and AWS accounts that we needed to manage was difficult."
"<p>Pulumi Enterprise has made our infrastructure deployment more efficient.</p>"
"Before using Pulumi Enterprise, our deployment time was between thirty minutes to an hour, and now we can change anything in our cloud environment in just a few minutes, like two or three minutes, generally reducing time by about sixty to seventy percent."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively as it is a modern infrastructure as code tool that helps us manage resources efficiently and reduce delivery time."
"Pulumi Enterprise has had a positive impact on my organization in terms of agility, standardization, and governance in the infrastructure-as-code area."
"<p>Pulumi Enterprise increases efficiency and reliability by providing seamless automation processes and tools while considering security and making secure infrastructure easy.</p>"
"Pulumi Enterprise has positively impacted my organization because it has saved considerable time."
 

Cons

"The solution could be improved by making it accessible to more people."
"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 integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process."
"The voucher access policy can be improved by configuring it based on groups, rather than just applications or users."
"While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority."
"Azure has great documentation, but I would like to see more use cases pertaining to specific industries. For example, case studies on how to use HIPAA compliant solutions in the healthcare industry or how to use PCI compliant data analytics solutions in the financial technology industry would be helpful."
"While it's very reliable in terms of stability, there's always room for improvement."
"If you check the capabilities of other key management services across Amazon, HashiCorp, and Google, there are features that Key Vault doesn't have. It could be the case that when you use Key Vault, you might be forced to use a third-party solution to get certain services. If those services could be included in Key Vault, there would be diminished reasons to go for a third-party key management system."
"We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work."
"I think the cost was very high when I had discussions with the customers."
"In the past year, I remember instances when Cloud Code searched for documentation from Pulumi and usually returned a non-existent parameter, which caused me to spend a lot of time finding and removing the incorrect parameter."
"Pulumi Enterprise has some issues worth mentioning. The stacks can grow and the execution time appears to grow exponentially when the number of resources increases."
"<p>Additionally, I sometimes struggle to see what we are paying for; we use Enterprise, but does the money justify what you are being offered when you have Terraform for free which offers a majority of the features already?</p>"
"Additionally, I think the modules part is a bit weak."
"<p>I have not seen any specific outcome or benefit that I have measured so far, such as saving time, reducing errors, or helping my team in a measurable way.</p>"
"Pulumi Enterprise can be improved by providing much better support rather than relying solely on AI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is inexpensive."
"It is less expensive compared to other competitors."
"We use a pay-as-you-go license for the solution, which is not very expensive."
"I find the pricing of Azure Key Vault to be reasonable."
"Azure Key Vault is an affordable solution."
"The cost of the Azure Key Vault is very high and the pricing model is based on the number of keys that you store and retrieve."
"The pricing is decent. It has a pretty low price. It is a straightforward cost based on usage."
"It is a cheap option."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
13%
Retailer
13%
Consumer Goods Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise28
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pulumi Enterprise?
Pulumi Enterprise's pricing, setup costs, and licensing are not high. There is a cost, but there is also the open-source option which works very well.
What needs improvement with Pulumi Enterprise?
For improvement, I feel there can be other things. Sometimes I feel that the state and the stacks get large eventually and sometimes they give the output in a very long format and it is difficult t...
What is your primary use case for Pulumi Enterprise?
We use Pulumi Enterprise with the Python runtime to provision our Azure platform. The client was using Azure platform to create or manage the resources. We started providing them solutions with Pul...
 

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
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