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What is the Azure Key Vault?

Azure Key Vault can be best described as a Key Management Service that is based on FIPS 140-2 validated HSMs, which also provides secrets and certificate-management services. Azure Key Vault is used for Azure RMS BYOK deployments. The service itself provides the following capabilities:

Centralized secret management
Compliance through Software/Hardware HSM protection
Read/Write management over REST API/SDK/PowerShell and CLI
Access and usage monitoring
Automated distribution, logging inspection, and deployments
Throttling and Versioning
SLA 99.9% and 6 persistent copies (3 copies same region/3 additional copies secondary region)

For Azure RMS and BYOK, you need to use the P1 Premium option to import your keys ...

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