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AWS Key Management Service (KMS) vs. IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS Key Management Service (KMS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)

by HashiCorp

Overall rating4.44.3
Review count3456
Ease of use8.78.0
Ease of setup9.17.2
Quality of support9.08.2
Meets requirements9.18.9
NPS58.06451654.545455
Small Business20.6%25.5%
Mid-Market20.6%32.7%
Enterprise58.8%41.8%
Total page views323761
Total LLM citations9422,166

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a service that help to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of keys.

Pros

  • Cloud Services
  • Security Protection
  • Azure Services

IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)

IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) tightly controls access to secrets and encryption keys by authenticating against trusted sources of identity such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, and cloud platforms. Vault enables fine grained authorization of which users and applications are permitted access to secrets and keys. Some of Vault's main use cases include: - Secrets Management - Identity Brokering - Data Encryption

Pros

  • Security
  • Ease of Use
  • Integrations
  • Easy Integrations
  • Customer Support
  • Management Ease