Why Azure Key Vault?

The main purpose of using Azure key Vault in Microsoft Azure is to encrypt the data of any applications. Following are some of the main purposes to use Azure Key Vault.

1. Securely store secrets and keys: Azure Key Vault is highly secure when it comes to data protection of applications such as keys and secrets. It is protected from users who don’t have access to the vaults. and also it protects the other resources which are from Azure accessing the data of your application without sufficient permissions.
2. Centralize application secrets: Azure Key Vault will help you to manage the same data of different applications in a centralized manner where it makes easier for multiple applications to manage the data.
3. Monitor: You can monitor the data of the application which is encrypted ad also you can set up alerts based on the operations performed on the data.
4. Scalability: Azure Key vaults are highly scalable without human intervention. The Azure key vaults will be scaled depending on the data of the application size.

To use secure configuration for Azure Functions with Azure Key Vault. You can secure secrets in Azure Key Vault and read them easily in an Azure Function. Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys.