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Vault vs Vault on AWS: What are the differences?
What is Vault? Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more. Vault provides a unified interface to any secret, while providing tight access control and recording a detailed audit log.
What is Vault on AWS? A Terraform Project for Secrets Management Anywhere. A secure Vault for secrets, tokens, keys, passwords, and more. Automated deployment with Terraform on AWS. Configurable options for security and scalability. Usable with any applications and services hosted anywhere.
Vault and Vault on AWS can be categorized as "Secrets Management" tools.
Vault and Vault on AWS are both open source tools. It seems that Vault with 15.6K GitHub stars and 2.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Vault on AWS with 251 GitHub stars and 25 GitHub forks.
Pros of Vault
- Secure17
- Variety of Secret Backends13
- Very easy to set up and use11
- Dynamic secret generation8
- AuditLog5
- Privilege Access Management3
- Leasing and Renewal3
- Easy to integrate with2
- Open Source2
- Consol integration2
- Handles secret sprawl2
- Variety of Auth Backends2
- Multicloud1