Commvault and Cohesity: two data protection companies moving into infrastructure rebuild

How did each get here?

Commvault was founded in 1996 and trades on NASDAQ as CVLT. It announced the acquisition of Appranix on 16 April 2024, and appranix.com now redirects to the Cloud Rewind page. Wikipedia also records a Clumio acquisition announced in September 2024.

Cohesity was founded in 2013 and completed its merger with Veritas in December 2024. Its Cloud Rebuild sits next to data protection for EC2, RDS and S3, a clean room and recovery orchestration.

What does each rebuild?

Cloud Rewind is positioned for complete application recovery across compute, storage, networking, databases and security, with point-in-time, in-sync copies captured automatically. The G2 product description lists VMs, containers, Kubernetes clusters, cloud volumes, security groups, load balancers, RDS and network configurations, with restore to the production VPC or isolated recovery environments.

Cloud Rebuild is described as rebuilding infrastructure, configurations and data so applications work correctly after outages or cyberattacks. Its stated scope is narrower: select AWS workloads in Terraform-provisioned environments. Cohesity announced Cloud Rebuild generally available on 31 March 2026, using Terraform configuration and state files as the source of truth.

Where do they disagree?

On infrastructure as code. Commvault markets Cloud Rewind as a way to skip complex infrastructure as code, although the G2 description says recovery environments are programmed with IaC. Cohesity uses your validated IaC definitions as the source of truth to discover dependencies and restore.

The practical difference: Cloud Rewind aims to work whether or not your environment is in code; Cloud Rebuild works best, and as stated only, where it already is.

Neither position is wrong. It decides which question to ask first: for Cloud Rewind, how it records an environment it did not build; for Cloud Rebuild, how much of your estate is in Terraform today.

How do they score?

Cloud Rewind ranks 3 of 5 with 7.2 out of 10. Cohesity is not scored: since the 13 October 2026 update it is listed with data backup products, which work alongside the infrastructure recovery tools we rank. On price, Commvault's own page shows no figures, while AWS Marketplace lists per-instance prices for Cloud Rewind; Cohesity publishes no Cloud Rebuild price. Neither publishes an RTO or RPO.

What are they saying in 2026?

Cohesity made two announcements on 16 September 2026. Agent Resilience discovers, protects and recovers the infrastructure behind AI agents, starting with Amazon Bedrock, for select customers, with general availability targeted for the end of 2026. A Vanson Bourne survey of 3,200 IT and security decision-makers, commissioned by Cohesity, found that 78% focus cyber recovery on restoring systems rather than maintaining business operations. That is Cohesity's own research, but its finding matches the gap this site scores: systems coming back is not the same as the service coming back.

What does this mean for buyers who already own one of them?

Many teams evaluating cloud DR already run Commvault or Cohesity for data. For them the question is whether the infrastructure rebuild from the same vendor covers enough of the environment to avoid a second product. With Cohesity, the stated answer depends on how much of the AWS estate is in Terraform and whether Azure or Google Cloud matter. With Commvault, Cloud Rewind's stated scope is wider, but the absence of a published price and recovery target means the comparison starts in a sales conversation.

Either way, the test is the same: pick one critical application, ask the vendor to rebuild its full environment in an isolated target, and check which layers came back.

Who should look at which?

If you already buy from Commvault and run on more than one cloud, Cloud Rewind is the natural shortlist entry. If protected data is your first need, your critical workloads run on AWS and they are already in Terraform, Cohesity covers both halves in one contract. In both cases, ask for a recovery target and a description of drift handling in writing, and for Cohesity a Cloud Rebuild price.