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AWS Secrets Manager vs. IBM Vault vs. Sectigo Certificate Manager

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Secrets Manager

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS Secrets Manager enables users to rotate, manage, and retrieve secrets throughout their lifecycle, making it easier to maintain a secure environment that meets security and compliance needs. With Secrets Manager, administrators pay based on the number of secrets stored and API calls made.

    $0.05

    Per 10,000 API Calls

    IBM Vault

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Vault (formerly Hashicorp Vault) is an encryption tool for managing secrets including credentials, passwords and other secrets, providing access control, audit trail, and support for multiple authentication methods. It is available open source, or under an enterprise license.

    $0.03

    Sectigo Certificate Manager

    N/AN/ASectigo Certificate Manager deploys and automates lifecycle management of PKI certificates across a range of enterprise use cases, including securing web and network resources, email security and encryption, identity, DevOps containers and code, and public cloud resources.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS Secrets ManagerIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Per 10,000 API Calls
    $0.05
    Per 10,000 API Calls
    Per Secret Per Month
    $0.40
    Per Secret Per Month
    Cloud - HCP Vault
    $0.03/hr
    Open Source
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Secrets ManagerIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AWS Secrets ManagerIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Vault
    HashiCorp Vault integrates with a lot of tools and systems, and the documentation was pretty robust with a lot of community help. Because HashiCorp Vault is also older than other solutions, it is already well developed with a lot of features you need for storing secrets and …
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    Sectigo
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    AWS Secrets ManagerIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Small Businesses
    Keeper
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Keeper
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Secrets ManagerIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
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    9.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Support Rating
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    6.3
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AWS Secrets ManagerIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    [AWS Secrets Manager] is really good at managing the secrets for each environment (stage, production, ...), and with a simple command, the users will get all the variables for running the project. Depending on the user role, they could just read and/or edit the variables on the Secrets Manager on AWS. This facilitates the management of the secrets.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault, in my opinion, is a defacto standard for any cloud or automation implementation. They're the best of the best as far as products for secrets management and the ability to use it against relatively any service you have is unheard of for other products. HashiCorp has really taken out all the stops when it comes to creating a nice, extensible tool that people can use to suit their needs.
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    Sectigo
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Single source of truth for secrets
    • Securely share secrets with colleagues
    • Securely store secrets for services to access during runtime
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • The HTTP API you use to write and read secrets is open and can be used by any application.
    • It keeps our sensitive data/credentials out of our GitLab repositories.
    • Sealing and unsealing the Vault on demand adds an additional layer of security.
    Incentivized
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    Sectigo
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • It could be good if a user can use a variable in the project but can't see them in the manager on AWS
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    IBM
    • Session Management is terrible to manage
    • Monitoring is hard and not enough information
    • User management
    • Configuration is too complex
    • More user friendly UI
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    Sectigo
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is the best there is out there, and it has become critical to our secret management use cases. It would be difficult to find anything that would suit our needs better and that would be beneficial for us to switch over to.
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    Sectigo
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    We spent a little more time than we imagined to conceptually understand how HashiCorp Vault operates, as well as how it is configured. This is not trivial, and keep in mind that you will need to take some time to get a thorough understanding of the tool. The documentation could be more helpful in this regard.
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    Sectigo
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Hashicorp has been very responsive to our questions and inquiries up to this point. We are currently working on them to develop a more granular permissions model within Vault. We are very close to achieving our objectives with the help of their support team. We do not seem to be in the same time zone which makes it hard for escalated issues.
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    Sectigo
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Both AWS Secrets Manager & MS Azure Key Vault are pretty similar. They're the default secrets manager on their respective cloud platform.
    The choice comes down to where your infra resides on.
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.
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    Sectigo
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Costs are suitable
    • ROI is positive
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    IBM
    • Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
    • Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.
    Incentivized
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    Sectigo
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Vault Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example of writing a secret to Vault. Secrets are always encrypted and written to backend storage.Screenshot of the secrets menu to manage integrated secrets engines. Secrets Engines are components which store, generate, or encrypt data and are enabled at a path in Vault.Screenshot of where vault identity has support for groups. A group can contain multiple entities as its members. A group can also have subgroups.Screenshot of HCP Vault, which provides all of the power and security of Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself.Screenshot of where to view entity client and non-entity client counts.Screenshot of MFA is built on top of the Identity system of Vault.