Drift Management

Catch and Fix Cloud Drift Before It Becomes an Outage

Every manual console change and ClickOps hotfix accumulates into an invisible gap between your IaC and reality. By the time drift is discovered, it's usually through an outage, a failed deployment, or a compliance audit. Firefly continously scans your cloud estate, detects drift in real-time and automatically remediates it to reduce MTTR, so your infrastructure stays aligned and stable.
The problem

Velocity Without Control Creates Drift and Drift Creates Incidents

Pressure to ship faster forces teams to cut corners: bypass standards, fragment automation, accumulate drift.

Undetected drift is a dual threat. When configuration silently diverges from your IaC, you get incidents and security gaps. And when something does go wrong, drifted environments aren't reproducible — recovery falls back on tribal knowledge instead of a reliable source of truth.

Fix the drift before it becomes an incident.

Detect, Investigate, and Fix Drift Across Your Entire Cloud

Firefly goes beyond just flagging drift. It shows you exactly what changed, generates the fix automatically, and lets you apply it through your existing Git workflow.

Event-driven detection full actor attribution

Firefly detects drift in real time via event-driven hooks, not just periodic scans. For every deviation, you see what changed, which field, and who made the change, across every account, region, and resource type including module versions.

Side-by-side diff with cost impact

For every drifted resource, Firefly shows the exact difference between the running cloud configuration and the desired IaC state — field by field. It also calculates the financial delta between the two states, so you can prioritize remediation by cost impact.

Two-way remediation — update cloud or update code

Reconcile the asset back to its IaC-defined state, or align the IaC to match the current live state. Both paths are generated automatically — you choose which reflects intent.

Git-native — every fix stays under version control

Firefly opens a pull request in your connected VCS with the exact IaC changes needed. Your team reviews and merges in the normal workflow — no fix ever bypasses code review.

What Do You Get with Firefly?

From the first detected drift to a stable, compliant environment. Here's what changes when drift is no longer invisible.

Stop incidents before they start

Real-time alerts fire the moment drift is detected — via Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook — so your team can act before it becomes an outage or a security gap. A centralized view shows what percentage of your cloud is codified, unmanaged, or drifted, so you always know where the risk is before it finds you.

Reduce MTTR from hours to minutes

Instead of manually hunting down what changed and where, engineers get a ready-to-use fix with the exact code or CLI command needed — applied through the normal Git workflow.

Keep environments reproducible and reliable

When drift is continuously detected and fixed, your infrastructure state is always known and there no hidden blind spots. Environments stay reproducible, so recovery doesn't rely on tribal knowledge or manual effort.

Stay audit-ready without extra work

Every drift event and every fix is automatically logged — tamper-proof, timestamped, and always current. Ready for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, DORA, and NIS2 reviews the moment an auditor asks.

Recognition

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