Gambit vs. Firefly

The Only True Cloud Resilience Platform

Here's a walkthrough for infra and security pros who just want to know what their options are.

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Firefly is an Automated Cloud Resilience platform—and alternative to Gambit—that provides true resilience:

Validate your resilience posture continuously, across your entire cloud footprint — multi-cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS

Expose hidden gaps in your recovery plans before an incident finds them for you

Prove compliance against DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA — with evidence, not assumptions

And then go further: codify your entire infrastructure as IaC, govern it, and keep it drift-free

Orchestrate and provision infrastructure using your existing CI/CD pipelines or Firefly runners

Detect and remediate configuration drift in real time — before it breaks your recovery plans

Recover automatically with AI-driven DR-as-Code, cross-region failover, and point-in-time rollback

See how Firefly stacks up against Gambit

Firefly

Gambit

Resilience Posture Assessment

Understand which parts of your environment are exposed before an incident

Firefly

Gartner-recognized Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM). Continuous scanning across multi-cloud, K8s, and SaaS.

Detects misconfigurations, unmanaged resources, and gaps in recovery posture in real time.

Terraform Cloud

Cross-stack visibility and gap identification are their primary capability.

Agentless integration claimed, but depth of integrations unverified at launch with no independent validation yet.

Disaster Recovery Execution

Actually perform recovery — not just assess it

Firefly

DR Agent executes automated cross-region failover, point-in-time snapshots, and infrastructure rollback.

Minutes-to-recovery SLAs. Recovery is automated, not manual.

Terraform Cloud

Gambit validates recovery paths; it does not execute them. After finding the gap, closing it is still your problem.

IaC Foundation

Infrastructure-as-Code as the backbone of resilience

Firefly

AI-powered codification of unmanaged resources, module generation, drift remediation, and full governance.

Supports Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Helm, Kustomize, and more.

Terraform Cloud

No IaC capability. Agentless integration does not extend to infrastructure codification or rebuild.

IaC Orchestration & Provisioning

Provision and manage infrastructure within your existing workflows

Firefly

Orchestrate IaC seamlessly within your existing CI/CD pipelines or Firefly runners. Not blocked in the event of downtime. No vendor lock-in.

Terraform Cloud

No orchestration or provisioning capability. Gambit sits on top of your stack as a validation layer; it does not manage or provision infrastructure.

Real-Time Drift Detection

Know the moment your infrastructure deviates from desired state

Firefly

Near real-time detection at scale without requiring plan/apply.

Maps cloud events against resources and ideal state for full context: who changed what, when, and how. Module versioning drift included.

Terraform Cloud

"Continuous and verifiable" resilience monitoring claimed, but technical specifics on infrastructure drift detection are not documented at launch.

Drift Remediation

Fix drift automatically, not manually

Firefly

Uniquely calls modules and repos, allowing non-expert IaC engineers to automate fixes by opening a PR.

Full remediation workflow without manual intervention.

Terraform Cloud

No drift remediation capability claimed. Gap identification is where the platform stops.

Unified Governance

Enforce policy from code to cloud — including unmanaged resources

Firefly

Single governance engine across code, CI/CD, and deployed cloud resources including unmanaged (ClickOps) assets. Natural language to OPA translation. Built-in FinOps cost estimation. AI-remediation for policy violations.

Terraform Cloud

"Prove compliance" is claimed with no specific framework coverage or governance engine detail announced at launch.

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Why you shouldn’t use Firefly as a Gambit alternative

So, if you’re the type of professional who *prefers* to keep things highly manual, strategically inefficient, and full of surprises, you’re all set to embrace the chaos with Gambit. (You should leave this page now. But we’ll be here if you change your mind).

If a resilience score is all you need.

Your board wants a dashboard, your CISO wants a number, and you have a separate team that can manually act on whatever the platform surfaces. A posture validator is plenty sufficient — Firefly automates the response, which would be way too easy for you.

If you love adding complementary tools to your stack.

You're comfortable buying one tool to find gaps and another to fix them. The idea of a platform that does both feels like overkill, and you're not bothered by the integration overhead.

If IaC isn't in your strategy.

Firefly's structural advantage — codification, drift remediation, and IaC-as-control-plane — only matters if you're committed to Infrastructure-as-Code. If your org still runs primarily on ClickOps, Gambit's agentless approach is a lower-friction entry point.

If not having any asset history or change log makes you feel like a daredevil, and you enjoy the challenge of solving problems when you can't see what changes were made, or who made them

Your team is confident they can reconstruct your environment from scratch after an incident, and you have no need for point-in-time snapshots or configuration versioning. Chaos is a valid architectural choice.

If you prefer to enforce governance manually.

In this scenario your engineers are uncharacteristically impervious to human error and have no interest in automated policy enforcement across unmanaged resources. Superhuman, really.

If you'd rather validate your recovery plans than execute them.

Knowing that your parachute might not open is valuable information. Whether you need someone to automatically deploy a backup parachute is a separate question.

Weighing your options?
Book a demo to see Firefly at work

Without Firefly, you're left with Gambit's posture score and no automated way to act on it. Knowing you're in the vulnerable 95% is a start — but it's not true resilience. Some teams are okay with that. We applaud the optimism.

Why Firefly?

Resilience posture management

Automated DR execution

Real-time drift detection & remediation

IaC codification & orchestration

Asset history & rollback

Unified governance & compliance

Self-hosted options for true control