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Vault HCP Cloud VS Vault Enterprise

July 26, 2021 ¬ 9:43 amh.Tamir Gefen

vault enterprise vs HCP vault cloud

As you probably know, a few months ago HashiCorp started offering the popular Vault product as a managed service in the cloud (known as “Vault HCP” or Vault Cloud),
until then this had only been offered as an on-premises product – Vault OSS and Vault Enterprise.

We recently (in response to questions from our customers) examined the differences between Vault HCP and Vault Enterprise, and here are the conclusions:

At this time, the Vault Cloud product managed by HashiCorp offers a basic capabilities set equivalent to the basic “Enterprise Platform only”, so the capabilities currently offered are:

Namespaces, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring Telemetry and Customer Support.

That means Vault Cloud does not offer the Governance & Policy capabilities offered in the Enterprise version; No Multi-Datacenter & Scale capabilities and no Advanced Data Protection.

We made a fully detailed sheet with all Vault Enterprise features and it can help you see what you would miss with Vault Cloud – (see our details below)

What does that mean? And what are the options available to you?

You actually have 3 options now when you are faced with implementing Vault:

Manage your own Vault on-premises (self-hosted) – you can use Vault OSS or the Enterprise versions (by purchasing a suitable license).
Vault Cloud HCP as a managed service of HashiCorp (under the restrictions listed above)
Managed Vault by a 3rd-party (like us ALM-Toolbox). You can install it wherever you want. You can use the free OSS edition or the Enterprise version so that you can enjoy all the existing features.