Azure Key Vault
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets, keys, and certificates. It helps safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications and services.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Azure Key Vault the way a machine reads it — 226 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Azure Key Vault scores 49.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Azure Key Vault
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Key Vault. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 6
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Azure Key Vault Keys API
REST API for creating, importing, updating, and performing cryptographic operations with keys in Azure Key Vault. Supports RSA, EC, and symmetric key types with operations inclu...
Azure Key Vault Secrets API
REST API for securely storing and managing secrets such as passwords, connection strings, and API keys in Azure Key Vault.
Azure Key Vault Certificates API
REST API for creating, importing, managing, and renewing certificates in Azure Key Vault.
Azure Key Vault Certificates API
Operations for creating, importing, managing, and renewing certificates including lifecycle management and certificate authority integration.
Azure Key Vault Keys API
Operations for creating, importing, managing, and performing cryptographic operations with keys.
Azure Key Vault Secrets API
Operations for securely storing and managing secrets such as passwords, connection strings, and API keys.
Postman Collections 3
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Key Vault Data Plane API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Key Vault Data Plane Certificates API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Key Vault Data Plane Certificates Keys API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Key Vault Data Plane Certificates Secrets API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 2
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 2
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Azure Key Vault Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSMicrosoft Azure Key Vault Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 2
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Key Management
Create, import, and manage cryptographic keys with support for RSA, EC, and symmetric key types.
Secrets Management
Securely store and control access to passwords, connection strings, API keys, and other secrets.
Certificate Lifecycle
Automate certificate creation, renewal, and management with certificate authority integration.
Cryptographic Operations
Perform encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify, wrap, and unwrap operations using managed keys.
HSM-Backed Keys
Use hardware security modules for FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated key protection.
Soft Delete and Purge Protection
Recover accidentally deleted vaults, keys, secrets, and certificates with configurable retention.
Semantic Vocabularies 2
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Azure Key Vault Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Azure Key Vault API Rules
SPECTRALAzure Key Vault API Rules
SPECTRALAzure Key Vault API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 91
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
BackupSecretResult
JSON SCHEMACertificateAttributes
JSON SCHEMACertificateBundle
JSON SCHEMACertificateCreateParameters
JSON SCHEMACertificateImportParameters
JSON SCHEMACertificateItem
JSON SCHEMACertificateListResult
JSON SCHEMACertificateOperation
JSON SCHEMACertificatePolicy
JSON SCHEMACertificateUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMADeletedCertificateBundle
JSON SCHEMADeletedKeyBundle
JSON SCHEMADeletedSecretBundle
JSON SCHEMADeletionRecoveryLevel
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAIssuerParameters
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKeyCurveName
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKeyOperation
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKey
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKeyType
JSON SCHEMAKeyAttributes
JSON SCHEMAKeyBundle
JSON SCHEMAKeyCreateParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyItem
JSON SCHEMAKeyListResult
JSON SCHEMAKeyOperationResult
JSON SCHEMAKeyOperationsParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyProperties
JSON SCHEMAKeyReleasePolicy
JSON SCHEMAKeySignParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyVaultError
JSON SCHEMAKeyVerifyParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyVerifyResult
JSON SCHEMALifetimeAction
JSON SCHEMASecretAttributes
JSON SCHEMASecretBundle
JSON SCHEMASecretItem
JSON SCHEMASecretListResult
JSON SCHEMASecretProperties
JSON SCHEMASecretRestoreParameters
JSON SCHEMASecretSetParameters
JSON SCHEMASecretUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMASubjectAlternativeNames
JSON SCHEMAX509CertificateProperties
JSON SCHEMAAzure Key Vault Secret Bundle
JSON SCHEMABackupSecretResult
JSON SCHEMACertificateAttributes
JSON SCHEMACertificateBundle
JSON SCHEMACertificateCreateParameters
JSON SCHEMACertificateImportParameters
JSON SCHEMACertificateItem
JSON SCHEMACertificateListResult
JSON SCHEMACertificateOperation
JSON SCHEMACertificatePolicy
JSON SCHEMACertificateUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMADeletedCertificateBundle
JSON SCHEMADeletedKeyBundle
JSON SCHEMADeletedSecretBundle
JSON SCHEMADeletionRecoveryLevel
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAIssuerParameters
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKey
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKeyCurveName
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKeyOperation
JSON SCHEMAJsonWebKeyType
JSON SCHEMAKeyAttributes
JSON SCHEMAKeyBundle
JSON SCHEMAKeyCreateParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyItem
JSON SCHEMAKeyListResult
JSON SCHEMAKeyOperationResult
JSON SCHEMAKeyOperationsParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyProperties
JSON SCHEMAKeyReleasePolicy
JSON SCHEMAKeySignParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyVaultError
JSON SCHEMAKeyVerifyParameters
JSON SCHEMAKeyVerifyResult
JSON SCHEMALifetimeAction
JSON SCHEMASecretAttributes
JSON SCHEMASecretBundle
JSON SCHEMASecretItem
JSON SCHEMASecretListResult
JSON SCHEMASecretProperties
JSON SCHEMASecretRestoreParameters
JSON SCHEMASecretSetParameters
JSON SCHEMASecretUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMASubjectAlternativeNames
JSON SCHEMAX509CertificateProperties
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JSON Structure 46
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Azure Key Vault Data Plane Certificate Bundle Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Certificate Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Certificate Policy Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Deleted Key Bundle Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Issuer Parameters Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Json Web Key Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Json Web Key Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Attributes Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Bundle Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key List Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Properties Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Release Policy Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Sign Parameters Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Vault Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Key Verify Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Lifetime Action Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Secret Attributes Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Secret Bundle Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Secret Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Secret List Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Key Vault Data Plane Secret Properties Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Azure Key Vault Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 46 ·
Examples 45
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Application Secret Management
Centralize and secure application secrets with audited access and automatic rotation.
Data Encryption
Encrypt data at rest and in transit using customer-managed keys stored in Key Vault.
TLS Certificate Management
Automate TLS certificate provisioning and renewal for web applications and services.
Code and Document Signing
Sign code, documents, and artifacts using keys stored securely in Key Vault.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Azure App Service
Reference Key Vault secrets and certificates directly from App Service configuration.
Azure Kubernetes Service
Mount Key Vault secrets as volumes in AKS pods using the Secrets Store CSI Driver.
Azure DevOps
Use Key Vault secrets in CI/CD pipelines for secure deployment automation.
Azure Disk Encryption
Encrypt Azure VM disks using customer-managed keys stored in Key Vault.
Azure SQL Database
Enable Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys from Key Vault.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Azure Key Vault — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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