RANKING · EDITION 2026.09
Firefly ranks first (73.5 out of 100) because it restores cloud configuration, networking, identity and DNS as Terraform code and keeps a full change history. Arpio (71.1) and Commvault Cloud Rewind (70.7) are close behind and beat Firefly on recovery automation, data protection and, for Arpio, published pricing. Most teams will pair an infrastructure recovery tool with a data backup product such as Veeam or Cohesity.
Ranking current as of September 2026 · By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk
A backup gets your data back. It does not recreate the VPC, the security groups, the IAM roles, the DNS records and the hundreds of settings your application needs before that data is useful. This ranking scores eight products on that second job: rebuilding cloud infrastructure and configuration after ransomware, an outage, an accidental deletion or a bad automated change. Two of the eight are data backup platforms, scored because buyers compare them. Two are infrastructure-as-code tools, included as the baseline most teams already own.
Best for application rebuild inside a Commvault estate
Cloud application recoverySeven criteria, weighted by how much each one decides a rebuild. Scores are 0 to 100 and the total is computed from the published weights. A filled square marks the top score in each column.
| Rank | Vendor | COV · 20% Infrastructure coverage beyond data, weight 20 percent | AUTO · 16% Recovery automation, weight 16 percent | XREG · 14% Cross-region and cross-account rebuild, weight 14 percent | DRIFT · 12% Drift and change history, weight 12 percent | IAC · 10% Restore as code (IaC generation), weight 10 percent | DATA · 18% Data protection depth and cloud DR track record, weight 18 percent | PRICE · 10% Pricing transparency, weight 10 percent | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Firefly | 86 Top | 84 | 82 | 92 Top | 94 Top | 30 | 55 | 73.5 |
| 02 | Arpio | 72 | 90 Top | 90 Top | 35 | 25 | 78 | 90 Top | 71.1 |
| 03 | Commvault Cloud Rewind | 84 | 88 | 78 | 50 | 60 | 80 | 25 | 70.7 |
| 04 | ControlMonkey | 86 Top | 76 | 70 | 88 | 85 | 20 | 45 | 66.3 |
| 05 | Cohesity | 55 | 70 | 65 | 30 | 55 | 92 | 20 | 59.0 |
| 06 | Veeam | 35 | 62 | 60 | 15 | 10 | 94 Top | 70 | 52.0 |
| 07 | HCP Terraform | 40 | 45 | 50 | 80 | 30 | 5 | 60 | 41.7 |
| 08 | StackGuardian | 30 | 35 | 30 | 80 | 85 | 5 | 50 | 39.8 |
Editorial assessment, 0-100 per criterion. Weighted total = sum of (score × weight) / 100. It measures fit for rebuilding cloud infrastructure and configuration after an incident. It is not a measure of overall product quality: data backup platforms and IaC orchestration tools score lower here because they solve a different part of the problem.
How we score · Re-weight it in the calculator
The recovery scope matrix shows what each vendor's public material says it restores across five layers. It is built from vendor pages and documentation reviewed in September 2026, not from testing. Download it as CSV.
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| Vendor | Data | Configuration | Network | IAM | DNS | Published RTO/RPO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefly | Not covered or not publishedDoes not document backing up data contents. | RestoredResource configuration restored as Terraform. | RestoredVPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, WAF in coverage table. | RestoredIAM roles, policies and users in coverage table. | RestoredRoute 53 and Azure Private DNS zones in coverage table. | RTO < 1 hr (vendor claim) |
| Arpio | RestoredContinuous replication; RPO as low as 15 min. | RestoredReplicates infrastructure with dependency mapping. | Partial or not itemizedComplex networking support listed in Enterprise. | Not covered or not publishedNot itemized on pages reviewed. | Not covered or not publishedNot itemized on pages reviewed. | RPO as low as 15 min (vendor claim) |
| Commvault Cloud Rewind | RestoredPoint-in-time, in-sync copies of workloads. | RestoredProtects configurations across compute, storage and databases. | RestoredNetworking named; security groups and load balancers per G2 description. | Partial or not itemizedSecurity resources named; IAM not itemized. | Not covered or not publishedNot itemized on pages reviewed. | Not published |
| ControlMonkey | Not covered or not publishedConfiguration only. | RestoredDaily cloud configuration snapshots on AWS, Azure, GCP. | Partial or not itemizedPart of cloud configuration; not itemized. | Partial or not itemizedOkta and Entra ID configuration; cloud IAM not itemized. | Partial or not itemizedCloudflare configuration; cloud DNS not itemized. | Not published |
| Cohesity | RestoredEC2, RDS, S3 backup and recovery. | Partial or not itemizedCloud Rebuild for select AWS workloads with existing IaC. | Not covered or not publishedNot itemized on pages reviewed. | Not covered or not publishedNot itemized on pages reviewed. | Not covered or not publishedNot itemized on pages reviewed. | Not published |
| Veeam | RestoredWidest listed workload data coverage in this ranking. | Partial or not itemizedAmazon VPC and Azure Virtual Networks listed; detail not published. | Partial or not itemizedListed as services; configuration detail not published. | Not covered or not publishedNot listed. | Not covered or not publishedNot listed. | Not published |
| HCP Terraform | Not covered or not publishedNo data protection. | Partial or not itemizedOnly what is already in Terraform code. | Partial or not itemizedOnly what is already in Terraform code. | Partial or not itemizedOnly what is already in Terraform code. | Partial or not itemizedOnly what is already in Terraform code. | Not published |
| StackGuardian | Not covered or not publishedNo data protection. | Partial or not itemizedCodifies unmanaged resources; no restore workflow. | Not covered or not publishedNo recovery product. | Not covered or not publishedNo recovery product. | Not covered or not publishedNo recovery product. | Not published |
What the vendor's public material says it restores. Not a test result. Hatched = partial or not itemized.
| Tool | Why not ranked | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Spacelift | An IaC orchestration platform for Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Kubernetes. Its home page describes drift detection and policy, but no backup or cloud disaster recovery product. | spacelift.io |
| env zero (env0) | Describes itself as an autonomous cloud control plane with drift detection and cloud asset management. No backup or cloud disaster recovery product is described. | www.envzero.com |
We also left out tools whose recovery features we could not confirm from public pages. If you think a product belongs here, write to editors@cloudresiliencevendors.com with a public source.
You already back up data and need the infrastructure back. Firefly, ControlMonkey or Commvault Cloud Rewind. Firefly if you want the recovered state as Terraform you keep; ControlMonkey if SaaS configuration (Okta, Entra ID, Cloudflare) matters as much as cloud; Cloud Rewind if you already run Commvault.
You need a tested failover with a known price. Arpio publishes its prices and RPO targets and runs failover tests on demand, on AWS and Azure.
Your main gap is the data. Veeam or Cohesity. Neither rebuilds the surrounding infrastructure in depth; Cohesity's Cloud Rebuild does this for select AWS workloads that are already in Terraform.
Everything is already in Terraform. HCP Terraform can re-apply it, and StackGuardian can codify what is not. Neither is a recovery product, so plan the rebuild, the ordering and the data yourself.
Latest news
Firefly now discovers Databricks resources, codifies them as infrastructure as code on demand and captures workspace configuration on a schedule, so a workspace can be restored to a point in time.
Source: Firefly blog
Agent Resilience is a Cohesity Data Cloud capability to discover, protect and recover the infrastructure behind AI agents, starting with Amazon Bedrock. It is available to select customers, with general availability targeted for the end of 2026.
Source: Cohesity
A Vanson Bourne survey of 3,200 IT and security decision-makers, commissioned by Cohesity, found that 78% of organizations focus cyber recovery on restoring systems rather than keeping business operations running.
Source: Cohesity
On our weights, Firefly (73.5 out of 100), followed by Arpio (71.1) and Commvault Cloud Rewind (70.7). The gap is small and the order changes with your priorities: if data protection or published pricing matter most, Arpio or a backup platform will fit better.
No. Backup copies data. Cloud disaster recovery brings a working service back, which needs the infrastructure and configuration around that data as well: networks, identity, DNS, load balancers and dependencies. See our explainer on backup vs infrastructure recovery. Cloud backup vs infrastructure recovery.
Only for the resources already in Terraform, and only if you have designed and tested the rebuild. HCP Terraform keeps state history and detects drift in its Standard and Premium editions, but it has no recovery workflow or data protection. That is why it ranks seventh here.
Arpio publishes all three tiers (from $12k a year single-cloud). Firefly publishes its Essential tier ($2,499 a month billed annually) but prices Backup and DR in Enterprise on request. Veeam publishes its SaaS rate ($42 per TB per month). Commvault Cloud Rewind and Cohesity are Contact sales.