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Scalr review: Terraform drift revert and state history for cloud DR planning
IaC management platform
Short answer
Scalr manages Terraform and OpenTofu runs with drift detection, a Revert Infrastructure option and every state version stored, at published per-run prices. It describes no backup, failover or recovery workflow, so it is listed with IaC management platforms and is not scored.
Vendor facts read September and October 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial assessment; we did not run the products.
Not scored · IaC management: outside the disaster recovery question, not scored
Scalr is listed in the group IaC management. They run and govern infrastructure as code but describe no backup or cloud disaster recovery product. It has no score or rank on this site. See the cloud DR rankings.
Which incidents does Scalr document recovering from?
A filled brick means the vendor's own pages describe recovering from that scenario. It is not a test result.
0 of 3 scenarios documented
- Outage: Not documented. No recovery product is described.
Source: Scalr docs: state management · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Bad change: Partial. Revert Infrastructure rolls drifted resources back to the previous state, for resources Scalr manages.
Source: Scalr docs: drift detection · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Region loss: Not documented. A region-loss rebuild is not described.
Source: Scalr docs: state management · Read 11 Oct 2026
What does Scalr do?
- Positioning
- Scalr describes itself as a drop-in replacement for Terraform Cloud, with drift detection, policy enforcement and module and provider registries.
Source: Scalr pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Drift
- Scheduled drift detection for Terraform and OpenTofu per environment, with Ignore, Sync State or Revert Infrastructure options; notifications to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Source: Scalr docs: drift detection · Read 11 Oct 2026
- State
- All previous state versions are stored and downloadable; a state rollback does not change resources unless a new run executes. State can be exported by CLI, API or a scheduled backup script.
Source: Scalr docs: state management · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery
- A disaster recovery or region-loss rebuild feature, RTO or RPO figures and recovery testing are not described in the docs read.
Source: Scalr docs: state management · Read 11 Oct 2026
What recovery targets does Scalr publish?
Not published
No RTO or RPO figure is published.
Which clouds does Scalr document?
- AWS: Partly documented
- Azure: Partly documented
- Google Cloud: Partly documented
Scalr stores state in its own Google Cloud bucket by default, or in your own Google Cloud, Azure or AWS bucket. It describes no recovery product for any cloud.
Source: Scalr docs: state management · Read 11 Oct 2026
Does Scalr produce infrastructure as code?
Everything Scalr manages is already Terraform or OpenTofu; it does not generate code from unmanaged resources on the pages read.
What does Scalr cost?
- Pricing
- Free up to 50 runs a month. Business: $0.99 per run with volume discounts, for example 100 runs for $99 a month; annual plans available. Enterprise: by quote, starting at 20,000 runs a year. No charge for users, workspaces, managed resources, concurrency or self-hosted agents. Drift detection runs are not billed; remediation runs are.
Source: Scalr pricing · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Delivery
- SaaS, with self-hosted agents
Where does Scalr help, and where does it stop?
Helps with
- Drift detection with a Revert Infrastructure option and every state version kept.
- Fully published per-run pricing with a free tier.
Stops short of
- No backup, failover or recovery workflow.
- Covers only resources managed in Terraform or OpenTofu, and no data protection.
Frequently asked questions
What does Scalr cost?
Free up to 50 runs a month. Business: $0.99 per run with volume discounts, for example 100 runs for $99 a month; annual plans available. Enterprise: by quote, starting at 20,000 runs a year. No charge for users, workspaces, managed resources, concurrency or self-hosted agents. Drift detection runs are not billed; remediation runs are.
Does Scalr publish an RTO or RPO?
No RTO or RPO figure is published.
Which clouds does Scalr cover for recovery?
AWS: documented with a caveat. Azure: documented with a caveat. Google Cloud: documented with a caveat. Scalr stores state in its own Google Cloud bucket by default, or in your own Google Cloud, Azure or AWS bucket. It describes no recovery product for any cloud.