Rankings · Scores 0 to 10 · Weights published · Updated 2026-10-13
Cloud DR rankings: five tools scored on fast, complete infrastructure recovery
The question we score
After an outage, a bad change or the loss of a region, which tool gets your cloud infrastructure back, not only your data, fastest and most completely?
Short answer
Out of 10: Arpio 7.5, Firefly 7.3, Commvault Cloud Rewind 7.2, ControlMonkey 6.2 and Gambit Security 2.2. The top two split the criteria: Arpio scores higher on recovery orchestration, region and account loss, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency, Firefly on rebuild scope and bad-change rollback. ControlMonkey ties Firefly on rebuild scope. Arpio ties Firefly on published recovery targets. Data backup products such as Cohesity and Veeam work alongside these tools and are not scored here.
Vendor facts read September and October 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial assessment; we did not run the products.
Which cloud DR tools recover infrastructure fastest and most completely?
| Rank | Tool | Type | Clouds documented | Score | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arpio | Cloud DR orchestration | AWS, Azure | Teams on AWS or Azure that want orchestrated failover, regular failover tests and a price they can see before a sales call | |
| 2 | Firefly | Infrastructure recovery as code | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (partly) | Teams that want configuration, networking, identity and DNS rebuilt as Terraform they keep, and a change history to undo bad changes | |
| 3 | Commvault Cloud Rewind | Cloud application recovery | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Teams already buying from Commvault that want whole application stacks captured and rebuilt on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud | |
| 4 | ControlMonkey | Configuration backup and recovery | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Teams that want daily snapshots of cloud and SaaS configuration and a one-click return to a known-good state, including identity and network SaaS settings | |
| 5 | Gambit Security | Recovery posture validation | None stated | Teams that need to map and prove recoverability across backups, IaC and cloud, and produce DORA, NIS2 or SOX evidence |
Data backup: works alongside, not scored
These products protect the data inside your cloud: volumes, databases and object storage. Most teams pair one of them with an infrastructure recovery tool from the ranking, so we list them as complements rather than score them against it.
Cohesity
Rebuilds infrastructure, configurations and data so applications work correctly after outages or cyberattacks, for select AWS workloads in Terraform-provisioned environments. Its AWS data protection covers EC2, RDS and S3 with cross-region recovery.
Source: Cohesity: Cloud Rebuild · Read 27 Sep 2026
Veeam
Data backup for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud workloads, with always-immutable backups and a SaaS rate of $42 per TB per month for AWS.
Source: Veeam Backup for AWS · Read 27 Sep 2026
IaC management: outside the disaster recovery question, not scored
These platforms run and govern infrastructure as code. None describes a backup or cloud disaster recovery product, so they sit outside the question this ranking scores.
Scalr
Describes itself as a drop-in replacement for Terraform Cloud, with drift detection, policy enforcement and module and provider registries. A disaster recovery or region-loss rebuild feature is not described in the docs read.
Source: Scalr pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
StackGuardian
An infrastructure-as-code management platform that discovers unmanaged resources and converts them to version-controlled Terraform or OpenTofu. No backup or cloud disaster recovery product is described on the home page.
Source: StackGuardian home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
HCP Terraform
Re-applies infrastructure already written in Terraform and stores state history; health assessments detect drift in the Standard and Premium editions. It has no recovery workflow.
Source: HashiCorp docs: health assessments · Read 27 Sep 2026
Spacelift
An infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform. Its home page describes no backup or cloud disaster recovery product.
Source: Spacelift home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
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.
Source: env zero home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
If a tool belongs in the ranking, send a public source through the contact page with the topic Correction.
How does each tool score on each criterion?
| Tool | Scope 20% | Orchestration 15% | Region loss 15% | Rollback 15% | Targets 10% | Testing 10% | Data 10% | Pricing 5% | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arpio | 7.2 | 9.0top in set | 9.0top in set | 3.5lowest in set | 7.0tied top in set | 9.0top in set | 7.8 | 9.0top in set | 7.5 |
| Firefly | 8.6tied top in set | 8.4 | 8.2 | 9.2top in set | 7.0tied top in set | 4.0 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 7.3 |
| Commvault Cloud Rewind | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 8.0top in set | 6.5 | 7.2 |
| ControlMonkey | 8.6tied top in set | 7.6 | 7.0 | 8.8 | 2.0 | 3.0tied lowest in set | 2.0lowest in set | 4.5 | 6.2 |
| Gambit Security | 2.5lowest in set | 1.0lowest in set | 1.0lowest in set | 4.5 | 0.0lowest in set | 3.0tied lowest in set | 2.5 | 4.0lowest in set | 2.2 |
Editorial assessment, 0 to 10 per criterion, one decimal. Weighted total = sum of (score x weight) / 100, shown to one decimal. It measures fit for getting cloud infrastructure back quickly and completely after an outage, a bad change or a region loss. It is not a measure of overall product quality.
Read the reason for every score
Arpio: 7.5 / 10
- Rebuild scope 7.2: Replicates infrastructure and data with dependency mapping on AWS and Azure; a list of covered resource types is not published.
Source: Arpio home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Recovery orchestration 9.0: Orchestrated failover in every tier, automated failback in Premium and orchestrated ransomware recovery in Enterprise.
Source: Arpio pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Region and account loss 9.0: Cross-account and cross-region failover on AWS and cross-subscription orchestration on Azure.
Source: Arpio home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Bad-change rollback 3.5: Drift detection, a configuration change history and rollback of a bad change are not published.
Source: Arpio home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Published recovery targets 7.0: Publishes RPO targets by tier (as low as 15 minutes, real-time in Premium); no RTO figure is published.
Source: Arpio pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Recovery testing 9.0: Failover tests that do not disrupt production, plus network sandbox testing in Premium.
Source: Arpio pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Data inside the rebuild 7.8: Continuous replication of data with RPO targets stated per tier.
Source: Arpio home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Pricing transparency 9.0: Every tier is priced on the pricing page, from $12k single-cloud, billed annually.
Source: Arpio pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026
Firefly: 7.3 / 10
- Rebuild scope 8.6: The coverage table lists 190 AWS and 86 Azure resource types, including IAM, Route 53, VPC, security groups, EKS and AKS; Google Cloud is not in the table.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR service coverage · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Recovery orchestration 8.4: Scheduled and on-demand policies capture dependencies automatically; the restore is a guided Terraform flow rather than a single failover step.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Region and account loss 8.2: Documents cross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated region or account.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Bad-change rollback 9.2: Change history, mutation tracking, drift detection and point-in-time rollback from versioned snapshots are core features.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR guide · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Published recovery targets 7.0: States an RTO under 1 hour; no RPO figure is published.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Recovery testing 4.0: Its disaster recovery page says resilience posture management validates backups, replication, dependencies and failover paths, but a recovery test or drill workflow is not described in the docs.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery page · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Data inside the rebuild 3.0: States that data backup is not service continuity and does not document backing up database or volume contents.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Pricing transparency 5.5: Essential is published at $2,499 a month billed annually but does not include Backup and DR, which is Enterprise only at custom pricing.
Source: Firefly pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
Commvault Cloud Rewind: 7.2 / 10
- Rebuild scope 8.4: Captures compute, storage, networking, databases and security on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud; the G2 description adds Kubernetes clusters, security groups and load balancers.
Source: Commvault: Cloud Rewind · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Recovery orchestration 8.8: Automated point-in-time capture and recovery of multi-layer application stacks is the core of the product.
Source: Commvault: Cloud Rewind · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Region and account loss 8.2: Docs describe recovery to the original or a different VPC, region, zone or account; cross-account recovery is currently AWS only.
Source: Commvault docs: Cloud Rewind overview · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Bad-change rollback 6.0: Point-in-time copies give a rollback point; drift analysis appears only in a third-party analyst quote on Commvault's page, and drift remediation is not described.
Source: Commvault: Cloud Rewind and recovery · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Published recovery targets 2.0: No RTO or RPO figure on the product page.
Source: Commvault: Cloud Rewind · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Recovery testing 7.0: The AWS Marketplace listing says recovery can be tested against live production; a step-by-step test workflow is not published.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Commvault Cloud Rewind (annual contract) · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Data inside the rebuild 8.0: In-sync copies include workload data, from Commvault, which has sold backup since its founding in 1996.
Source: Wikipedia: Commvault · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Pricing transparency 6.5: AWS Marketplace lists per-instance prices ($0.035 per instance per hour on demand, or $291 per instance for a 12-month contract); Commvault's own page shows no figures.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Commvault Cloud Rewind (annual contract) · Read 11 Oct 2026
ControlMonkey: 6.2 / 10
- Rebuild scope 8.6: Daily snapshots of cloud and SaaS configuration, including dependencies, across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and more than 30 SaaS providers such as Okta, Entra ID and Cloudflare; it protects IAM roles, DNS, routing, security groups and firewall rules.
Source: ControlMonkey: cloud disaster recovery solution · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery orchestration 7.6: One-click recovery to any previous known-good state from daily snapshots that include dependencies; failover and failback are not described.
Source: ControlMonkey: cloud disaster recovery solution · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Region and account loss 7.0: Replication to a secondary region or account is listed in the pricing table, and the disaster recovery page claims predictable recovery across accounts, regions and clouds; a cross-region rebuild procedure is not published.
Source: ControlMonkey pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Bad-change rollback 8.8: A time-machine restore to a known-good state, drift detection and remediation, snapshot change history and a ClickOps scanner.
Source: ControlMonkey pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Published recovery targets 2.0: Claims predictable RTO and RPO outcomes but publishes no figure.
Source: ControlMonkey: cloud disaster recovery solution · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery testing 3.0: A resilience score and recovery-gap findings are listed; a recovery test or drill workflow is not described on its disaster recovery page, which offers a free assessment instead.
Source: ControlMonkey: cloud disaster recovery solution · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Data inside the rebuild 2.0: Protects configuration, not data or workloads, by its own pricing FAQ.
Source: ControlMonkey pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Pricing transparency 4.5: A free resilience assessment for up to 50,000 cloud assets is published; Pro and Enterprise are by quote, priced on the scope of cloud and SaaS configuration.
Source: ControlMonkey pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
Gambit Security: 2.2 / 10
- Rebuild scope 2.5: Maps cloud, IaC and backups and their interdependencies, but does not describe rebuilding infrastructure, and named clouds are not published.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery orchestration 1.0: No recovery workflow is described; Balens maps and validates recoverability.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Region and account loss 1.0: Shows recovery gaps by disruption type, but rebuilding in another region or account is not described.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Bad-change rollback 4.5: Infrastructure drift detection and healthy restore point discovery; the restore itself is left to other tools.
Source: Gambit Security home page · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Published recovery targets 0.0: No RTO or RPO figure is published.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery testing 3.0: States it validates recovery paths in real time, but does not describe running recovery tests or failover drills.
Source: Gambit Security: out of stealth announcement · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Data inside the rebuild 2.5: Maps backup coverage across vendors and validates immutability and restore points, but does not back up data itself.
Source: Gambit Security home page · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Pricing transparency 4.0: AWS Marketplace lists a 12-month contract at $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform without defining the unit; the vendor site shows no price.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Balens by Gambit · Read 11 Oct 2026
Which incidents does each tool document?
| Tool | Outage | Bad change | Region loss | Bricks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arpio | DocumentedOrchestrated failover for outages, with tests that do not touch production.NoteOrchestrated failover for outages, with tests that do not touch production. | Not documentedRollback of a configuration change and drift detection are not described on the pages reviewed.NoteRollback of a configuration change and drift detection are not described on the pages reviewed. | DocumentedCross-region and cross-account failover on AWS; cross-subscription on Azure.NoteCross-region and cross-account failover on AWS; cross-subscription on Azure. | |
| Firefly | DocumentedAutomated cross-region failover with an RTO under 1 hour, as Firefly states.NoteAutomated cross-region failover with an RTO under 1 hour, as Firefly states. | DocumentedPoint-in-time rollback from versioned IaC snapshots, with drift detection and change tracking.NotePoint-in-time rollback from versioned IaC snapshots, with drift detection and change tracking. | DocumentedCross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated target.NoteCross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated target. | |
| Commvault Cloud Rewind | DocumentedComplete application recovery across compute, storage, networking, databases and security.NoteComplete application recovery across compute, storage, networking, databases and security. | PartialPoint-in-time copies give a restore point; drift detection is not published.NotePoint-in-time copies give a restore point; drift detection is not published. | DocumentedRecovery to a different region, zone or account; cross-account currently AWS only.NoteRecovery to a different region, zone or account; cross-account currently AWS only. | |
| ControlMonkey | DocumentedOne-click recovery to a previous known-good state from daily snapshots with dependencies.NoteOne-click recovery to a previous known-good state from daily snapshots with dependencies. | DocumentedTime-machine restore to a known-good state, with drift detection and remediation.NoteTime-machine restore to a known-good state, with drift detection and remediation. | PartialReplication to a secondary region or account is listed in the pricing table; a rebuild procedure is not published.NoteReplication to a secondary region or account is listed in the pricing table; a rebuild procedure is not published. | |
| Gambit Security | Not documentedValidates recoverability; recovery itself is left to other tools.NoteValidates recoverability; recovery itself is left to other tools. | PartialDrift detection and healthy restore point discovery, without a restore of its own.NoteDrift detection and healthy restore point discovery, without a restore of its own. | Not documentedRebuilding in another region or account is not described.NoteRebuilding in another region or account is not described. |
A filled brick means the vendor's own pages describe recovering from that scenario. It is not a test result.
Which head-to-head pairings are available?
- Arpio compared with Commvault Cloud Rewind
- Arpio compared with ControlMonkey
- Arpio compared with Firefly
- Arpio compared with Gambit Security
- Commvault Cloud Rewind compared with ControlMonkey
- Commvault Cloud Rewind compared with Firefly
- Commvault Cloud Rewind compared with Gambit Security
- ControlMonkey compared with Firefly
- ControlMonkey compared with Gambit Security
- Firefly compared with Gambit Security
Frequently asked questions
Why are data backup products not scored here?
This ranking asks how fully and how fast a tool brings the infrastructure back. Cohesity and Veeam protect the data inside your cloud and work alongside an infrastructure recovery tool, so they are listed as complements rather than scored against it.
Why are Scalr, StackGuardian, HCP Terraform, Spacelift and env zero not scored?
They run and govern infrastructure as code, but none describes a backup or cloud disaster recovery product, so they sit outside the question this ranking scores.
How often are the scores updated?
When a vendor publishes a change that affects a criterion, and at each quarterly edition. This edition uses vendor pages read in September and October 2026 and updated on 13 October 2026.