Azure service for securely storing and managing sensitive information like passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. Like a bank safety deposit box for your digital secrets.
Applications retrieve database passwords from Key Vault instead of storing them in code files.
Azure Key Vault combines secret storage (passwords, connection strings, API keys), certificate management, and key management for encryption/signing. Other clouds often split this across a secrets service and a key management service (AWS/GCP), while OCI Vault covers both secrets and keys.