Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys.
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service that provides a secure store for secrets. You can securely store keys, passwords, certificates, and other secrets. Azure key vaults may be created and managed through the Azure portal. In this quickstart, you create a key vault, then use it to store a secret.
Azure Key Vault enables Microsoft Azure applications and users to store and use several types of secret/key data: keys, secrets, and certificates. Keys, secrets, and certificates are collectively referred to as "objects".
Learn how to use Key Vault to create and maintain keys that access and encrypt your cloud resources, apps, and solutions. Tutorials, API references, and more.
Azure Key Vault provides two types of resources to store and manage cryptographic keys. Vaults support software-protected and HSM-protected (Hardware Security Module) keys.
Access control for keys managed by Key Vault is provided at the level of a Key Vault that acts as the container of keys. You can control access to keys using Key Vault Azure role-based access control (recommended) or old vault access policy permission model.
Azure offers several options for storing and managing your keys in the cloud, including Azure Key Vault, Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, Azure Cloud HSM, and Azure Payment HSM.
In this quickstart, you created a Key Vault using the Azure portal. To learn more about Key Vault and how to integrate it with your applications, continue on to these articles.
