Azure Artifact Signing

What Azure Artifact Signing is

Azure Artifact Signing is a paid cloud service for signing software and other artifacts. Supported targets include Win32 applications, PE binaries, VBS enclaves, CI policy files, internal or private artifacts, containers, and SignTool-supported file types. The service provides certificates, protects signing keys with an HSM, and supports trusted timestamping and CI/CD signing. Azure lists Linux, web, and Windows as supported platforms. The Basic plan costs $9.99 a month, billed monthly, and includes 5,000 signatures per month plus one of each available certificate profile type. Premium costs $99.99 a month, billed monthly, and includes 100,000 signatures per month plus ten of each available certificate profile type. There is no free plan. Both plans provide the listed signing capabilities, while their differences are monthly signature allowances and certificate profile counts. Teams can incorporate cloud signing into build and release workflows for the supported artifact types, selecting the lower Basic capacity or the larger Premium allocation.