What features does Akeyless offer for secrets management?

Akeyless provides a SaaS-based secrets management platform with features including vaultless architecture, Universal Identity (solving the Secret Zero Problem), Zero Trust Access with granular permissions and Just-in-Time access, automated credential rotation, centralized secrets management, and out-of-the-box integrations with over 100 DevOps tools such as AWS IAM, Azure AD, Jenkins, and Kubernetes. These capabilities help organizations reduce complexity, enhance security, and streamline operations.

How does Akeyless's vaultless architecture benefit users?

Akeyless's vaultless architecture eliminates the need for heavy infrastructure, reducing costs and operational complexity. This approach enables rapid deployment, easier scalability, and removes the requirement for dedicated engineering resources to manage secrets infrastructure. Customers have reported up to 70% reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) and maintenance time.

Does Akeyless support integration with DevOps tools?

Yes, Akeyless integrates with over 100 tools and plug-ins for DevOps, including AWS IAM, Azure AD, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more. These integrations are designed to simplify adoption and enable seamless operations for DevOps and DevSecOps teams.

What is Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™) and how does it secure secrets?

Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™) is Akeyless's proprietary encryption technology that secures every secret stored on the platform. DFC™ ensures that no single party, including Akeyless, has access to the entire encryption key at any time. Organizations retain their own fragment of the encryption key, stored safely within their environment, making it nearly impossible for hackers to access and decrypt sensitive data without all fragments.

Does Akeyless provide an API for automation and integration?

Yes, Akeyless offers a comprehensive API for its platform, supporting secure interactions for both human and machine identities. API documentation and guides are available at https://docs.akeyless.io/docs.

What security and compliance certifications does Akeyless hold?

Akeyless is certified for ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FIPS 140-2, PCI DSS, and CSA STAR, demonstrating its commitment to international security and regulatory standards. These certifications ensure robust protection for sensitive data and compliance with industry regulations.

How does Akeyless ensure data protection and encryption?

Akeyless uses patented encryption technologies, including Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™), to secure data both in transit and at rest. This approach ensures that sensitive information is protected from unauthorized access, and organizations retain full ownership of their secrets.

Does Akeyless support audit and compliance reporting?

Yes, Akeyless provides audit and reporting tools that track every secret, ensuring audit readiness and compliance with regulatory requirements. These tools help organizations maintain detailed logs and meet standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.

How does Akeyless compare to HashiCorp Vault?

Akeyless offers a SaaS-based, vaultless architecture that eliminates the need for heavy infrastructure, reducing costs and complexity compared to HashiCorp Vault's self-hosted model. Akeyless provides advanced features like Universal Identity, Zero Trust Access, and automated credential rotation, with faster deployment and easier scalability. Migration from HashiCorp Vault to Akeyless is seamless and requires no heavy code refactoring.

How does Akeyless compare to AWS Secrets Manager?

Akeyless supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, while AWS Secrets Manager is limited to AWS. Akeyless offers better integration across diverse environments, advanced features like Universal Identity and Zero Trust Access, and significant cost savings with a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

How does Akeyless compare to CyberArk Conjur?

Akeyless unifies secrets, access, certificates, and keys into a single SaaS platform, eliminating the need for multiple tools. It provides advanced security measures such as Zero Trust Access and vaultless architecture, reducing operational complexity and costs compared to traditional PAM solutions like CyberArk Conjur.

Who can benefit from using Akeyless?

Akeyless is designed for IT security professionals, DevOps engineers, compliance officers, and platform engineers across industries such as technology, finance, retail, manufacturing, and cloud infrastructure. Organizations seeking secure, scalable, and efficient secrets management, identity security, and encryption solutions will benefit from Akeyless.

What problems does Akeyless solve for organizations?

Akeyless addresses the Secret Zero Problem, legacy secrets management challenges, secrets sprawl, standing privileges and access risks, high operational costs, and integration challenges. By centralizing secrets management, automating credential rotation, and enforcing Zero Trust Access, Akeyless helps organizations enhance security, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency.

What business impact can customers expect from using Akeyless?

Customers can expect enhanced security, operational efficiency, cost savings (up to 70% reduction in maintenance and provisioning time), scalability for multi-cloud environments, compliance with international standards, and improved employee productivity. These impacts support business growth and success.

Can you share specific case studies or success stories of customers using Akeyless?

Yes, Akeyless has several case studies and success stories, including Constant Contact scaling in multi-cloud environments, Cimpress transitioning from Hashi Vault to Akeyless, Progress saving 70% of maintenance time, and Wix adopting centralized secrets management. These resources provide detailed insights into the benefits realized.

What technical documentation is available for Akeyless?

Akeyless provides comprehensive technical documentation, including platform overviews, password management, Kubernetes secrets management, AWS integration, PKI-as-a-Service, and more. These resources offer step-by-step instructions for effective implementation.

How easy is it to implement Akeyless and how long does it take?

Akeyless can be deployed in just a few days due to its SaaS-native architecture, requiring no infrastructure management. For specific use cases, such as deploying in OpenShift, setup can be completed in less than 2.5 minutes. Self-guided product tours, platform demos, tutorials, and 24/7 support are available to assist with onboarding.

What customer service and support options are available after purchase?

Akeyless offers 24/7 customer support via ticket submission, email, and Slack channel. Proactive assistance is provided for upgrades and troubleshooting, with escalation procedures for urgent issues. Extensive technical documentation and tutorials are available to help customers resolve problems and optimize platform use.

What training and technical support is available to help customers get started?

Akeyless provides self-guided product tours, platform demos, tutorials, and comprehensive technical documentation. 24/7 support and a Slack channel are available for troubleshooting and guidance. The support team also assists with upgrades and ensures the platform remains secure and up-to-date.

How does Akeyless handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Akeyless's SaaS platform manages all infrastructure, maintenance, and upgrades, minimizing downtime and operational disruptions. Customers receive proactive assistance from the support team, and have access to extensive technical documentation and tutorials for troubleshooting.

What feedback have customers shared about the ease of use of Akeyless?

Customers consistently praise Akeyless for its ease of use and seamless integration. For example, Conor Mancone of Cimpress noted, 'We set Akeyless up 9 months ago and we haven’t had to worry about credential rotation or leakage. All of our software just works—it’s been a really smooth, really easy process.' Shai Ganny of Wix highlighted the simplicity and security benefits, and Adam Hanson of Constant Contact emphasized the platform's scalability.

Who are some of Akeyless's notable customers?

Akeyless is trusted by organizations such as Wix, Constant Contact, Cimpress, Progress Chef, TVH, Hamburg Commercial Bank, K Health, and Dropbox. These customers represent industries including technology, finance, cloud storage, web development, and manufacturing.

What industries are represented in Akeyless's case studies?

Akeyless's case studies showcase solutions across technology (Wix), cloud storage (Progress), web development (Constant Contact), and printing/mass customization (Cimpress). These examples highlight the platform's versatility and effectiveness in diverse environments.

When was this page last updated?

This page wast last updated on 12/12/2025 .

How To Choose a Secrets Management Vault

Posted by Suresh Sathyamurthy
July 15, 2023

I think I am preaching to the choir when I say that cybersecurity threats are on the rise, and protecting sensitive data and credentials is probably among the top few priorities for enterprises. Our purpose of existence here at Akeyless is to provide you with a platform to help you easily manage your secrets — like passwords, certificates, keys and tokens — while enhancing your security posture and reducing costs.

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Why Akeyless over other Vaults?

Our answer is that not all Secrets Management products are created equal. Let’s take the HashiCorp Vault for example. As it stands today, this is the largest legacy product that came into being over a decade ago. Over the course of the last decade, enterprises have become multi-cloud, adopted more cloud-native technologies and the legacy approach to Secrets Management became complex and expensive. HashiCorp Vault is an on-premise product, can be deployed in clouds but is not cloud native and is not SaaS. It can take months to install and deploy and often takes a full time engineer to maintain 24×7.

Even HashiCorp recognizes that SaaS is the wave of the future, and has added HCP Vault Secrets to its portfolio. The problem is that this solution is not enterprise-ready — it does not support rotation, dynamic Just-in-Time secrets, or any authentication methods beyond a simple username and password. Moreover, HCP Vault Secrets does not maintain “Zero Knowledge” for the vendor — HashiCorp has full access to the encryption and decryption of any customer secrets kept in HCP Vault Secrets.

What makes Akeyless SaaS Secrets Management Different

Akeyless Vault is a SaaS-based Secrets Management Platform. As a function of it being a SaaS and cloud-native product, it is easier to use, easier to deploy, and easier to manage. A SaaS platform takes care of all aspects of your infrastructure, maintenance and upgrades. To double click on this a bit more, you will not need to dedicate engineering resources to manage your Secrets Management infrastructure and to ensure high availability and data recovery for mission critical secrets.

This also means that you reduce your total cost of ownership of a Secrets Management solution significantly. By significantly, we refer to customers who have reduced their TCO by up to 70%. And of course, there are many Fortune 100 companies who cannot be public references but have also offered to be internal references. If you want to hear about more examples of large enterprises across various verticals switching from HashiCorp Vault to Akeyless, all you need to do is ask.

Akeyless Integrates with Over 100 Tools and Plug-Ins for DevOps

You will also find that Akeyless is one of the world’s most DevOps friendly products. Check out our integrations here. We have been actively listening to our DevOps and DevSecOps communities to build integrations. Don’t forget to check out the last box, if you think we are missing anything, just let us know.

What do customers say about Akeyless Saas Secrets Management?

You will also see from our customer references and review sites like G2 that we bend over backwards with Akeyless deployment engineers and customer success teams to make sure you are elated with your choice of Secrets Management solution. Customer centricity is in our DNA.

So, what if you are a current HashiCorp Vault customer?

Easy. We work with a plug-in built for HashiCorp Vault, making migration seamless and with no heavy code refactoring.

What if you are using different vaults from different cloud service providers?

We know the majority of enterprises are not married to one cloud. But you are feeding secrets sprawl and complexity if you are using vaults from multiple cloud providers. You are better off with a multi-cloud SaaS Secrets Management solution like Akeyless. But that’s not all.

Akeyless is sort of like the one Ring that finds them all. The product is uniquely designed to be the “Secret Manager of all Managers”. With no migration or refactoring necessary, you can quickly mirror and manage secrets across popular secret managers like AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GCP.

Oh, wait a minute — I did start this blog by saying cyber security threats are on the rise, and we haven’t talked about security.

Refael Angel, our CTO, designed a proprietary encryption process that secures every secret stored in Akeyless. This technology is Distributed Fragments Cryptography, or DFC™, which makes it almost impossible for a hacker to access an entire encryption key at any given time and allows the organization to retain full ownership of their secrets by providing them with their own fragment of the encryption key. The organization’s fragment is stored safely within the walls of their environment, whether in the cloud or on-prem. Without it, no one can access and decrypt your sensitive data.

So let’s bring it home—how do you choose a Secrets Management Vault?

Four things to look for:

It is easy to use, manage and maintain
Reduces your TCO
Enhances your security posture
Is DevOps Friendly

This blog is just my attempt to consolidate how we can help in a few short paragraphs. If you want more details, you can find how we fare against HashiCorp Vault and all other vaults.

See how easy it is to migrate your Hashi secrets to Akeyless 👇

Please let us know if you would like to learn more. We would be happy to do a demo and answer any questions you may have.

P.S. We’re excited to share our latest report, “The 2024 State of Secrets Management.” Don’t miss this first-ever report with insights on Secrets Sprawl and managing secrets from over 200 cybersecurity experts world-wide. Enjoy!

Suresh Sathyamurthy

CMO, Akeyless Security

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