Firefly vs. Commvault Cloud Rewind
Recovering a Broken Cloud is Not Resilience
Firefly is a battle-tested Automated Cloud Resilience platform trusted by hundreds of organizations worldwide. Unlike Cloud Rewind's script-based recovery with partial cloud coverage, Firefly recovers your cloud using Infrastructure-as-Code — rebuilding a clean, governed, fully-mapped environment across every cloud, every time.
Recognized by Gartner as a leading CAIRS in the 2025 Hype Cycle for Backup & Data Protection.
Recognized by Gartner as a leading CAIRS in the 2025 Hype Cycle for Backup & Data Protection.
Trusted by Platform Engineers, CISOs, and CIOs at enterprises where downtime isn't an option.
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Script-Based Recovery With Manual Dependencies Mapping or a Clean, IaC-Built Environment. Your Call.
Restoring a misconfigured cloud is better than not restoring it at all. It's also a great way to start the clock on your next incident. Cloud Rewind recovers from snapshots, with no IaC, manual dependency mapping, and coverage gaps across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS. You can make a better choice.
What Firefly Gives You
Recovery Is the Last Line of Defense. Firefly Covers Every Line.
Instantly rebuild full environments after outages and cyberattacks with minimal downtime
Prove compliance against DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA, with evidence, not assumptions
Validate resilience posture continuously, across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS
Expose hidden gaps in your recovery plans before an incident finds them for you
Scan your cloud and create a unified System of Record across all resources, dependencies, and relationships
Achieve 100% IaC coverage by turning your entire infrastructure into IaC, governing it, and keeping it drift-free
Orchestrate and provision infrastructure safely with built-in guardrails, using existing CI/CD pipelines or Firefly runners
Rewinding Is Not the Same as Rebuilding
Comparison
Cloud rewind
Cloud infra recovery
Firefly
✅ Redeploys deployment-ready Terraform or OpenTofu — governed, policy-enforced, IaC-native
Redeploys deployment-ready Terraform or OpenTofu — governed, policy-enforced, IaC-native
Cloud rewind
⚠️ Restores a proprietary snapshot — misconfigurations, drift, and ungoverned resources included
Cloud Coverage
Firefly
✅ Covers thousands types of resources
Covers thousands types of resources
Cloud rewind
⚠️ Covers a limited set of resources that will keep your restored env exposed to failures
Comprehensive dependency mapping
Firefly
✅ Continuous live dependency mapping across every resource, relationship, and service
Continuous live dependency mapping across every resource, relationship, and service
Cloud rewind
❌ No automated dependency discovery
Drift Detection / Remediation
Firefly
✅ Real-time drift detection with AI remediation. Drift is automatically fixed before it compounds into your next incident
Real-time drift detection with AI remediation. Drift is automatically fixed before it compounds into your next incident
Cloud rewind
❌ No drift detection or remediation capabilties
Multi-cloud support
Firefly
✅ AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Nebius, Kubernetes, and any Terraform provider
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Nebius, Kubernetes, and any Terraform provider
Cloud rewind
⚠️ AWS, Azure, GCP only — no OCI, limited Kubernetes, limited SaaS
SaaS application recovery
Firefly
✅ Full SaaS recovery coverage across providers
Full SaaS recovery coverage across providers
Cloud rewind
⚠️ Limited to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace only
Kubernetes recovery
Firefly
✅ Full Kubernetes recovery — workloads, cluster roles, networking, and configuration
Full Kubernetes recovery — workloads, cluster roles, networking, and configuration
Cloud rewind
⚠️ Partial — managed clusters only, no workload-level recovery
Clean-region / clean-account recovery
Firefly
✅ Automated clean-region and clean-account failover — immutable snapshots, zero reinfection risk
Automated clean-region and clean-account failover — immutable snapshots, zero reinfection risk
Cloud rewind
⚠️ Limited clean-region isolation
IaC-native solution
Firefly
✅ Every snapshot stored as Terraform or OpenTofu — versioned, governed, redeployable anywhere
Every snapshot stored as Terraform or OpenTofu — versioned, governed, redeployable anywhere
Cloud rewind
❌ No IaC — proprietary scripts generated at restore time only
CRPM
Firefly
✅ Live resilience posture score — what is protected, recoverable, and at risk, right now
Live resilience posture score — what is protected, recoverable, and at risk, right now
Cloud rewind
❌ Not available
Future-proof support for new cloud services
Firefly
✅ Supports any service with a Terraform provider — no waiting for a legacy vendor
Supports any service with a Terraform provider — no waiting for a legacy vendor
Cloud rewind
⚠️ Dependent on Commvault's legacy roadmap and release cycles
Why You Should Choose Firefly Instead of Cloud Rewind
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Because recovering into a misconfigured environment isn't recovery. It's a rerun. Firefly rebuilds a clean, governed, IaC-built environment, not a replica of what failed.
02
Because restoring without IaC is like rebuilding a house from a photograph. Firefly stores every snapshot as deployment-ready Terraform or OpenTofu.
03
Because manual dependency mapping turns recovery into a guessing game. Firefly automatically maps every resource, relationship, and service — so when you recover, nothing is missing.
04
Because finding recovery gaps during a real incident is a terrible strategy. Firefly's CRPM shows you exactly what's protected and what isn't. Before incidents strike.
05
Because whatever broke your cloud is probably waiting on the other side of that restore button. Firefly rebuilds a clean environment. Not a rerun of the problem.
06
Because your cloud moves faster than a legacy vendor's backlog. Firefly is AI-native, purpose-built, and ships at the pace your cloud actually demands.
Weighing Your Options?
Your Cloud Deserves More Than Just a Restore Button
Here’s a reminder of what you get with Firefly:
Resilience posture management
Automated DR execution
Real-time drift detection and remediation
Unified System of Record
IaC generation and orchestration
Continuous governance and compliance