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Firefly alternatives for cloud disaster recovery (2026)

Short answer

The highest-scoring alternatives to Firefly on our weights are Arpio, Commvault Cloud Rewind and ControlMonkey. Firefly scores 7.3 and ranks 2 of 5. Which one fits depends on the incident you worry about most: see which incidents each documents below.

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.

Why do teams look for Firefly alternatives?

  • Infrastructure Backup and DR sits in the Enterprise tier, which is custom priced; the published Essential tier does not include it.
  • Firefly does not document backing up database or volume contents, so a data backup product is still needed.
  • Its docs state that restoration depends on Terraform provider support.
  • Google Cloud is not in the Backup and DR coverage table.

Which alternatives score highest?

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  1. 1. Arpio Cloud DR orchestration

    7.5 / 10
    Arpio recovery bricks: documents 2 of 3 scenarios: outage and region loss.Outage: Documented. Bad change: Not documented. Region loss: Documented.
    • AWS: Documented
    • Azure: Documented
    • Google Cloud: Not documented

    Scores higher than Firefly on: recovery orchestration, region and account loss, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency.

    Firefly scores higher on: rebuild scope and bad-change rollback.

    Head to head

  2. 2. Commvault Cloud Rewind Cloud application recovery

    7.2 / 10
    Cloud Rewind recovery bricks: documents 2 of 3 scenarios: outage and region loss.Outage: Documented. Bad change: Partial. Region loss: Documented.
    • AWS: Documented
    • Azure: Documented
    • Google Cloud: Documented

    Scores higher than Firefly on: recovery orchestration, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency.

    Firefly scores higher on: rebuild scope, bad-change rollback and published recovery targets.

    Head to head

  3. 3. ControlMonkey Configuration backup and recovery

    6.2 / 10
    ControlMonkey recovery bricks: documents 2 of 3 scenarios: outage and bad change.Outage: Documented. Bad change: Documented. Region loss: Partial.
    • AWS: Documented
    • Azure: Documented
    • Google Cloud: Documented

    Firefly scores higher on: recovery orchestration, region and account loss, bad-change rollback, published recovery targets, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency.

    Head to head

  4. 4. Gambit Security Recovery posture validation

    2.2 / 10
    Gambit recovery bricks: documents 0 of 3 scenarios.Outage: Not documented. Bad change: Partial. Region loss: Not documented.
    • AWS: Not documented
    • Azure: Not documented
    • Google Cloud: Not documented

    Firefly scores higher on: rebuild scope, recovery orchestration, region and account loss, bad-change rollback, published recovery targets, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency.

    Head to head

When should you stay with Firefly?

Stay with Firefly if your biggest risk is losing or breaking the environment around your data: configuration, networking, identity and DNS. It ties for the widest rebuild scope in this set, keeps a change history with point-in-time rollback for bad changes, and restores as Terraform your team can review and keep. Pair it with a data backup product and ask for its Enterprise price in writing.

Frequently asked questions

What is the top-scoring alternative to Firefly?

Arpio at 7.5 on our default weights. It scores higher than Firefly on recovery orchestration, region and account loss, recovery testing, data inside the rebuild and pricing transparency.

Which Firefly alternatives document recovery after a bad change?

ControlMonkey. Partly: Commvault Cloud Rewind and Gambit Security.

Which Firefly alternatives publish a price?

Arpio: Billed annually. Commvault Cloud Rewind: AWS Marketplace: $0.035 per instance per hour on demand (falling to $0.021 above 100,000 instances), or $291 per instance for a 12-month contract with $0.035 per unit overage; 24- and 36-month contracts are listed. ControlMonkey: Free Resilience Assessment for up to 50,000 cloud assets, with detection-only drift. Gambit Security: AWS Marketplace: 12-month contract, $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform, with 24- and 36-month options; the unit is not defined.