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AKV only supports asymmetric keys
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## Learn more about Azure key management solutions
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**Azure Key Vault (Standard Tier)**: A FIPS 140-2 Level 1 validated multitenant cloud key management service that can be used to store both asymmetric and symmetric keys, secrets, and certificates. Keys stored in Azure Key Vault are software-protected and can be used for encryption-at-rest and custom applications. Azure Key Vault Standard provides a modern API and a breadth of regional deployments and integrations with Azure Services. For more information, see [About Azure Key Vault](/azure/key-vault/general/overview).
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**Azure Key Vault (Standard Tier)**: A FIPS 140-2 Level 1 validated multitenant cloud key management service that can be used to store asymmetric keys, secrets, and certificates. Keys stored in Azure Key Vault are software-protected and can be used for encryption-at-rest and custom applications. Azure Key Vault Standard provides a modern API and a breadth of regional deployments and integrations with Azure Services. For more information, see [About Azure Key Vault](/azure/key-vault/general/overview).
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**Azure Key Vault (Premium Tier)**: A FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated, PCI compliant, multitenant HSM offering that can be used to store both asymmetric and symmetric keys, secrets, and certificates. Keys are stored in a secure hardware boundary*. Microsoft manages and operates the underlying HSM, and keys stored in Azure Key Vault Premium can be used for encryption-at-rest and custom applications. Azure Key Vault Premium also provides a modern API and a breadth of regional deployments and integrations with Azure Services. If you are an AKV Premium customer looking for higher security compliance, key sovereignty, single tenancy, and/or higher crypto operations per second, you may want to consider Managed HSM instead. For more information, see [About Azure Key Vault](/azure/key-vault/general/overview).
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**Azure Key Vault (Premium Tier)**: A FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated, PCI compliant, multitenant HSM offering that can be used to store asymmetric keys, secrets, and certificates. Keys are stored in a secure hardware boundary*. Microsoft manages and operates the underlying HSM, and keys stored in Azure Key Vault Premium can be used for encryption-at-rest and custom applications. Azure Key Vault Premium also provides a modern API and a breadth of regional deployments and integrations with Azure Services. If you are an AKV Premium customer looking for higher security compliance, key sovereignty, single tenancy, and/or higher crypto operations per second, you may want to consider Managed HSM instead. For more information, see [About Azure Key Vault](/azure/key-vault/general/overview).
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**Azure Managed HSM**: A FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated, PCI compliant, single-tenant HSM offering that gives customers full control of an HSM for encryption-at-rest, Keyless SSL/TLS offload, and custom applications. Azure Managed HSM is the only key management solution offering confidential keys. Customers receive a pool of three HSM partitions—together acting as one logical, highly available HSM appliance—fronted by a service that exposes crypto functionality through the Key Vault API. Microsoft handles the provisioning, patching, maintenance, and hardware failover of the HSMs, but doesn't have access to the keys themselves, because the service executes within Azure's Confidential Compute Infrastructure. Azure Managed HSM is integrated with the Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Azure Information Protection PaaS services and offers support for Keyless TLS with F5 and Nginx. For more information, see [What is Azure Key Vault Managed HSM?](/azure/key-vault/managed-hsm/overview).
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