Live Demo
Akeyless vs. HashiCorp Boundary: Secure Remote Access Demo
Discover how Akeyless Modern PAM unifies secure remote access and session management in a single SaaS platform, eliminating the infrastructure complexity of running HashiCorp Boundary. While Boundary requires manual cluster management, self-hosted workers, and a separate Vault deployment for credentials, Akeyless delivers a unified Zero Trust solution through a single control plane. One UI. One API.
Watch Recording
Watch our live demo recording comparing Akeyless Modern PAM vs. HashiCorp Boundary to see how a SaaS-native platform simplifies privileged access. Our experts walk through real workflows that highlight the tradeoffs between Boundary and Akeyless as environments scale.
What You Will See
- Why modern PAM must support ephemeral access and dynamic environments
- How Boundary's self-managed model compares to Akeyless's managed SaaS approach
- Differences in setup time, operational effort, and ongoing maintenance
- Q&A with our experts
Advanced Features Demonstrated
- Agentless, Native Access: Users connect instantly to SSH, RDP, databases, and web apps without VPNs or additional setup.
- True Just-in-Time Access: Session-based credentials are created on demand and expire automatically after use.
- SSO Authentication: Authenticate through Okta, Azure AD, or any SAML IdP.
- Complete Session Visibility: Real-time session recording, playback, and audit logs across all protocols.
- Native Terminal Experience: Engineers use their own tools including kubectl, Lens, and native SSH from the terminal, with full session recording maintained.
Speakers
Sam Gabrail
Platform Engineer, TeKanAid Solutions
Netser Heruty
Director of Solutions Architecture, Akeyless
What We Covered
This session compared two modern approaches to privileged access: HashiCorp Boundary and Akeyless Modern PAM. Sam Gabrail opened with the core problem, explaining why the legacy model of VPNs, bastion hosts, and firewall rules breaks down in dynamic cloud environments where infrastructure changes daily and organisations no longer own the perimeter.
The session covered how Boundary works as an identity-aware proxy and where its limitations appear in practice. Credential injection, just-in-time credentials, and automatic rotation all require HashiCorp Vault as a separate product, adding operational complexity, separate licensing, and two teams to manage.
Netser then walked through a live Akeyless demo covering five workflows: RDP access to Windows with video session recording, AWS Console access using a temporary IAM user created just-in-time, MySQL database access with a dynamic user and live credential revocation, Kubernetes access both through the browser portal and native kubectl via tunnel, and SSH access using short-lived certificates from the native terminal.
The session closed with a discussion of how the same architecture applies to AI agent access, with the Akeyless Gateway intercepting and recording agent connections in the same way it handles human sessions.
