When the next cloud outage hits, recovery depends on two things: having a fully operational, identical environment running, or at least knowing exactly what needs to be rebuilt and how.

Backups preserve data, but they don’t preserve operations. True resilience requires the ability to recreate your entire environment, every network rule, compute instance, database, and policy that keeps your business running.

Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) is Firefly’s new governance and measurement framework for evaluating cloud recovery readiness. It defines the standards, best practices, and scoring methodology Firefly uses to analyze recovery posture and validate that environments can be rebuilt as designed, based on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) intelligence and predefined resilience policies. 

That’s why IaC is foundational to Firefly’s CRPM framework: it provides the source of truth that makes resilience measurable, testable, and enforceable.

From Configuration Chaos to Reproducible Environments

Cloud environments evolve constantly. Pipelines spin up new resources, others are destroyed, and console changes slip in unnoticed. Over time, the real cloud state drifts from what’s declared, creating uncertainty, especially during recovery.

Firefly continuously discovers and maps every live resource across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and K8s, automatically generating and updating IaC blueprints that reflect your true configuration in real time.

This makes your cloud reproducible by design - every dependency, variable, and policy captured as code, ready to redeploy anywhere, even when a provider’s control plane is unavailable.

Within the CRPM framework, reproducibility becomes the foundation of resilience. Firefly uses it to transform static backup visibility into actionable recovery intelligence, so you don’t just know what’s backed up, you know what can actually be rebuilt, validated, and restored.

Validating Recovery Readiness Through IaC

Resilience isn’t about whether backups exist; it’s about whether they can be accessed, validated, and redeployed independently of a failing region or control plane.

To maintain a healthy resilience posture under CRPM, Firefly continuously compares the live runtime configuration with the desired IaC baseline to assess whether your environment can actually recover. This analysis uncovers the invisible drifts that break recovery, such as missing replication, misaligned IAM roles, dependency gaps, or outdated snapshots.

Here's an example.

During a recent Terraform update, a team accidentally removed a load balancer’s cross-region failover target. 

The IaC still defined dual-region redundancy, but the live configuration didn’t. If the primary region failed, traffic would have had nowhere to route: a silent single point of failure.

Firefly detected the drift instantly, identified it as a CRPM policy breach, flagged it as a resiliency gap, and automatically generated an automated fix to restore redundancy.

Evaluating Resilience Through Governance Policies

While IaC makes your infrastructure reproducible, governance policies make it resilient.

Firefly applies a continuously expanding library of CRPM-defined governance policies to evaluate how well your environment aligns with recovery objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise DR standards.

Each policy encodes best practices from frameworks like AWS Well-Architected Reliability, NIST SP 800-34, and Gartner’s CAIRS model. 

Firefly’s Latest Policy Expansion

Firefly recently added new CRPM policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, bringing the total framework to over 30 active resilience policies that automatically assess and enforce protection standards.

New policy categories include:

  • Backup: Snapshots, AMIs, SQL Long-Term Retention (LTR), and snapshot replication coverage

  • Availability: Multi-AZ validation, geo-replication, and zone redundancy across all major clouds

  • Reliability: Auto Scaling Group (ASG) buffer capacity, global tables, and read replica enforcement

  • Replication: Cross-region and cross–availability domain redundancy

Each policy provides the criteria Firefly uses to identify weaknesses before they cause downtime, such as an unprotected bucket, a missing replica, or an outdated snapshot, and to trigger automated remediation that restores compliance.

The result: a real-time Resilience Posture Score that quantifies recovery readiness and validates business continuity posture across environments.

From Blueprint to Recovery: IaC-Driven DR and CAIRS

Firefly’s CRPM framework aligns directly with Gartner’s Cloud Application Infrastructure Recovery (CAIRS) category: a recognition that traditional data backup has failed to ensure business continuity in cloud environments.

CAIRS defines a new standard: treating infrastructure as software that can be reliably rebuilt, not just restored. 

Firefly, recognized by Gartner as CAIRS, delivers IaC-driven DR by codifying every component of your environment for automatic, policy-driven recovery.

Firefly’s DR AI Agent automatically orchestrates full-stack recovery, reducing manual intervention and accelerating restoration. During an outage, Firefly can redeploy entire environments using IaC modules across regions, clouds, or accounts, ensuring business continuity and minimal downtime. 

Firefly now applies the CRPM framework as part of its CAIRS-aligned approach, ensuring that resilience standards translate directly into executable recovery procedures.

Key capabilities include:

  • Unified, Cloud-Agnostic Backup: Automatically backs up configurations and data across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes, and SaaS.

  • Codification and Cloud Snapshots: Captures live infrastructure as clean, deployable code while creating scheduled snapshots for point-in-time recovery.

  • Automated DR Workflows: Firefly’s DR AI Agent executes policy-driven recovery workflows to meet defined RTO targets.

  • Compliance and Auditability: Every backup, restore, and configuration change is logged, meeting SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR standards.

  • Granular Versioning: Track every change - who made it, what changed, and when, enabling safe rollback and ransomware recovery.

Why Accessibility and Independence Matter

Traditional DR depends on the same control planes that fail during major outages. Firefly eliminates that dependency.

Because your IaC blueprints and CRPM-based governance logic exist independently of any single cloud provider, you can initiate recovery directly from Firefly, even when a provider’s console or APIs are offline.

This independence ensures that you own your resilience posture, not your cloud vendor.

CRPM: The Governance Layer on Top of IaC

If IaC is the foundation, CRPM is the governance layer that allows Firefly to measure,  score, and enforce resilience standards across environments.

  • IaC allows environments to be reproducible.

  • CRPM allows Firefly to score resilience and recoverability, and determine how well environments can withstand and recover from disruption.

The Future of Continuous Resilience

Firefly’s Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) is a governance and automation layer that ensures cloud environments are resilient by design.

As cloud providers accelerate to power the AI race, reliability is becoming an afterthought, and enterprises are paying the price. CRPM changes that: it turns resilience from an assumption into a measurable, automated discipline.

From discovery to recovery, Firefly unifies IaC, governance, and IaC-driven DR to make the cloud efficient, governed, and resilient against disaster.