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Firefly review: cloud infrastructure recovery as code

Infrastructure recovery as code

Short answer

Firefly snapshots cloud configuration, networking, identity and DNS and rebuilds them as Terraform, across regions and accounts, and states an RTO under 1 hour. It scores 7.3 and ranks 2 of 5: top in this set on bad-change rollback and tied top on rebuild scope, held back by no data backup, no described recovery test workflow and Backup and DR priced only in its custom Enterprise tier.

By The Rebuild Desk · Cloud Resilience Compare · Re-checked October 2026

Vendor facts read September and October 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial assessment; we did not run the products.

Which incidents does Firefly document recovering from?

Documented by the vendor Partly documented Not documented on the pages reviewed

A filled brick means the vendor's own pages describe recovering from that scenario. It is not a test result.

3 of 3 scenarios documented

Outage: Documented. Automated cross-region failover with an RTO under 1 hour, as Firefly states.
Source: Firefly home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
Bad change: Documented. Point-in-time rollback from versioned IaC snapshots, with drift detection and change tracking.
Source: Firefly: cyber resilience use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
Region loss: Documented. Cross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated target.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026

What does Firefly bring back?

Positioning: Firefly says it helps teams recover from cyberattacks, outages and AI agents' errors, with an RTO under 1 hour and automated cross-region failover.
Source: Firefly home page · Read 27 Sep 2026
What a snapshot holds: Configurations, dependencies, networking and identity, rebuilt with infrastructure as code across regions and accounts.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
Data: Firefly's own page says data backup is not the same as service continuity. It does not document backing up database or volume contents.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
Backup policies: Resources are selected by tag and captured on demand, daily, weekly or monthly, with dependencies such as the VPC, subnet and IAM instance profile.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR · Read 27 Sep 2026
Restore method and limit: Restores generate Terraform code. The docs state that restoration depends on Terraform provider support.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR · Read 27 Sep 2026
Coverage: 190 AWS resource types across 48 services and 86 Azure resource types across 14 services, including IAM, Route 53, Azure Private DNS, VPC, security groups, network ACLs, WAF, EKS, AKS and RDS configuration.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR service coverage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Clean target: Rebuild into a clean, isolated region or account, and roll back to a point in time from versioned IaC snapshots.
Source: Firefly: cyber resilience use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
Change tracking: Codification, mutation tracking in an Event Center, and drift management are part of the Backup and DR guide.
Source: Firefly docs: Backup and DR guide · Read 27 Sep 2026
IaC formats: Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation and Crossplane; inventory across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI and Kubernetes.
Source: Firefly product page · Read 27 Sep 2026
SaaS sources: Okta, Entra ID, Datadog, GitHub, Cloudflare, New Relic, PagerDuty, MongoDB Atlas, Databricks, Akamai, NS1 and HashiCorp Vault are listed in the docs.
Source: Firefly docs index · Read 27 Sep 2026
Restore workflow: Open a snapshot, select resources, preview the generated Terraform and continue through IaC orchestration; resources can be recreated in a different region. Snapshots can be compared to show added, removed and changed resources.
Source: Firefly docs: Applications Backup and DR · Read 11 Oct 2026
Posture checks: Firefly's disaster recovery page says its resilience posture management validates backups, replication, dependencies and failover paths. No RPO figure and no failback are described.
Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery page · Read 11 Oct 2026

What recovery targets does Firefly publish?

Firefly states an RTO under 1 hour. It does not publish an RPO figure on the pages reviewed.

Which clouds does Firefly document?

AWS: Documented
Azure: Documented
Google Cloud: Partly documented

Firefly's Backup and DR docs list AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI as data source options, but the service coverage page has AWS and Azure tabs only (190 AWS resource types across 48 services). Its pricing FAQ names AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI and Nebius integrations.

Source: Firefly docs: Applications Backup and DR · Read 11 Oct 2026

Does recovery produce infrastructure as code?

Restores are generated as Terraform code rather than applied as direct changes to the cloud.

Restore as code is not scored on this site; see How scores work.

What does Firefly cost?

Pricing: 14-day free trial with all features, no credit card. Essential: $2,499 a month billed annually, up to 20,000 assets; it does not include Backup and DR. Enterprise, which adds Infrastructure Backup and DR, configuration history, automated backup policies and Instant Recovery with an RTO under 1 hour: custom pricing. Listed on the AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Datadog marketplaces.
Source: Firefly pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
Delivery: SaaS

How does Firefly score on each criterion?

Firefly: score per criterion
Criterion	Weight	Score	Why
Rebuild scope	20%	8.6 Tied top	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	15%	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	15%	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	15%	9.2 Top in set	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	10%	7.0 Tied top	States an RTO under 1 hour; no RPO figure is published. Source: Firefly: cloud disaster recovery use case · Read 27 Sep 2026
Recovery testing	10%	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	10%	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%	5.5	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

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.

Where does Firefly score well, and where does it fall short?

Scores well

Top or tied top in this set on rebuild scope, bad-change rollback and published recovery targets.

Tied for the widest documented rebuild scope in this set: configuration, networking, identity and DNS on AWS and Azure, restored as Terraform.
The strongest bad-change recovery here: change history, drift detection and point-in-time rollback from versioned snapshots.

Falls short

Does not back up data contents, so it needs a data backup product beside it.
Backup and DR is priced only in the custom Enterprise tier, and a recovery test workflow is not described on the pages reviewed.

How does Firefly compare head to head?

Arpio 7.5, Firefly 7.3 Arpio vs Firefly
Firefly 7.3, Commvault Cloud Rewind 7.2 Commvault Cloud Rewind vs Firefly
Firefly 7.3, ControlMonkey 6.2 ControlMonkey vs Firefly
Firefly 7.3, Gambit Security 2.2 Firefly vs Gambit Security

Frequently asked questions

What does Firefly cost?

14-day free trial with all features, no credit card. Essential: $2,499 a month billed annually, up to 20,000 assets; it does not include Backup and DR. Enterprise, which adds Infrastructure Backup and DR, configuration history, automated backup policies and Instant Recovery with an RTO under 1 hour: custom pricing. Listed on the AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Datadog marketplaces.

Does Firefly publish an RTO or RPO?

Its published RTO is under 1 hour. Firefly states an RTO under 1 hour. It does not publish an RPO figure on the pages reviewed. These are vendor claims, not our measurements.

Which clouds does Firefly cover for recovery?

AWS: documented. Azure: documented. Google Cloud: documented with a caveat. Firefly's Backup and DR docs list AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI as data source options, but the service coverage page has AWS and Azure tabs only (190 AWS resource types across 48 services). Its pricing FAQ names AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI and Nebius integrations.