Azure key vault generally available

1. Azure Key Vault Generally Available
Published by Hector Ramos on 6/25/2015
Details
Today, Microsoft announced generally availability of the Key Vault cloud security offering which enables
Azure subscribers to safeguard and control cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and
services. The key vault lets you keep certificates, shared keys, and passwords in a centrally managed location
with revocable access control capabilities.
One the best ways to start leveraging it is to keep separate keys for your dev/test/stage/prod environments and
to be able to only grant permissions to the keys needed. Additionally, keys can be geographically distributed so
that they are close to the applications that need them. Finally, the area where I see the largest potential involves
multi-tenant SaaS applications. By using the key vault, you can allow tenants in your application to upload
their own cryptographic keys so that they are available for use by your application but without direct access to
the customer's keys themselves.
I encourage you to take a look and consider the key vault next time to need to control access to secrets and
key's with an easily accessible programming interface.
PowerShell
New-AzureKeyVault -VaultName 'MyKeyVault' -ResourceGroupName $resGrpName -Location 'East
US'
$key = Add-AzureKeyVaultKey -VaultName 'MyKeyVault' -Name 'MyFirstKey' -KeyFilePath
'c:certkey.pfx' -KeyFilePassword $pfxpwd
References
 Key Vault documentation
 Key Vault Pricing