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Protecting Oracle Keys with Azure Key Vault
Has anyone used Azure Key Vault to protect keys for on-premises Oracle databases? From what I can see, it isn't a direct integration but rather using Oracle Key Vault for the key management and then integrating OKV with Azure Key Vault as the HSM.
Has anyone done this, and is it a supported configuration?
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Yes, this is out-of-the-box integration between Azure Key Vault and on-premises Oracle databases. However, there is a supported and increasingly common architecture where Oracle Key Vault (OKV) acts as the primary key manager for Oracle databases, and Azure Key Vault is used as the Hardware Security Module (HSM) or upstream key store.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. I would be more interested in a direct integration, but it did not seem as though this is/was possible, and that the only route was to go through the Oracle Key Vault.
I checked the relevant documentation on Oracle's site, and while the cloud services are well documented, I'm coming up empty for any documentation related to 19c on-premises installations.
If he have any supporting documentation that highlights the direct integration I'd appreciate it very much.
