COMPARE · EDITION 2026.09
Compare cloud disaster recovery vendors side by side
By default this page compares the top three vendors in the ranking: Firefly (73.5), Arpio (71.1) and Commvault Cloud Rewind (70.7). Pick two to five vendors to see every criterion score, the reason behind it, what each restores and what each publishes about price.
Ranking current as of September 2026 · By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk
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| Row | Firefly 01 | Arpio 02 | Commvault Cloud Rewind 03 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank and weighted total | 01 · 73.5 | 02 · 71.1 | 03 · 70.7 |
| Category | Infrastructure recovery platform | Cloud DR orchestration | Cloud application recovery |
| Infrastructure coverage beyond data COV · 20% | 86 Highest among selected Docs list backup coverage for 190 AWS resource types across 48 services and 86 Azure resource types across 14 services, including IAM, Route 53, VPC, security groups, EKS and AKS; GCP is not in the coverage table. | 72 Replicates infrastructure and data with dependency mapping on AWS and Azure; a full list of covered resource types is not published on the pages we reviewed. | 84 Covers compute, storage, networking, databases and security on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud; the G2 description adds containers, Kubernetes clusters, security groups and load balancers. |
| Recovery automation AUTO · 16% | 84 Backup policies run on demand, daily, weekly or monthly and capture dependencies automatically; restore is a guided Terraform flow rather than a single failover button. | 90 Highest among selected One-click testing and failover in every tier, automated failback in Premium, and orchestrated ransomware recovery in Enterprise. | 88 Automated point-in-time capture and one-step recovery of multi-layer application stacks are the core of the product. |
| Cross-region and cross-account rebuild XREG · 14% | 82 Firefly documents cross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated region or account after ransomware. | 90 Highest among selected Cross-account and cross-region failover on AWS and cross-subscription orchestration on Azure are stated on the home page. | 78 Restores to the production VPC or to isolated recovery environments; cross-account steps are not detailed on the product page. |
| Drift and change history DRIFT · 12% | 92 Highest among selected Drift detection, mutation logs and a configuration history are core product features, not add-ons. | 35 Drift detection and a configuration change history are not published. | 50 Point-in-time copies give a history, but drift detection against a known-good state is not published. |
| Restore as code (IaC generation) IAC · 10% | 94 Highest among selected Restores are generated as Terraform code, and codification covers Terraform, Pulumi and CloudFormation, so the recovered state is code the team keeps. | 25 Arpio does not publish infrastructure-as-code output from a recovery. | 60 Commvault says recovery environments are programmed with IaC, while marketing the product as a way to skip IaC; a Terraform export is not published. |
| Data protection depth and cloud DR track record DATA · 18% | 30 Firefly states that data backup is not service continuity and does not document backing up database or volume contents; it needs a data backup product alongside it. | 78 Continuous replication with RPOs as low as 15 minutes in Standard and real-time RPOs in Premium. | 80 Highest among selected Captures in-sync copies of workloads including data, backed by a vendor that has sold backup since 1996. |
| Pricing transparency PRICE · 10% | 55 Essential is published at $2,499 a month billed annually, but Backup and DR sits in the Enterprise tier, which is custom priced. | 90 Highest among selected All three tiers are on the pricing page, with Standard at $12k single-cloud and Premium at $36k single-cloud per year. | 25 No public price; available through the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud marketplaces, otherwise Contact sales. |
| Data | Not covered or not published Does not document backing up data contents. | Restored Continuous replication; RPO as low as 15 min. | Restored Point-in-time, in-sync copies of workloads. |
| Configuration | Restored Resource configuration restored as Terraform. | Restored Replicates infrastructure with dependency mapping. | Restored Protects configurations across compute, storage and databases. |
| Network | Restored VPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, WAF in coverage table. | Partial or not itemized Complex networking support listed in Enterprise. | Restored Networking named; security groups and load balancers per G2 description. |
| IAM | Restored IAM roles, policies and users in coverage table. | Not covered or not published Not itemized on pages reviewed. | Partial or not itemized Security resources named; IAM not itemized. |
| DNS | Restored Route 53 and Azure Private DNS zones in coverage table. | Not covered or not published Not itemized on pages reviewed. | Not covered or not published Not itemized on pages reviewed. |
| Published RTO or RPO | RTO < 1 hr (vendor claim) | RPO as low as 15 min (vendor claim) | Not published |
| Clouds | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Kubernetes | AWS, Azure | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud |
| Delivery | SaaS | SaaS | SaaS, sold direct and through the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud marketplaces |
| Pricing | 14-day free trial with all capabilities, no credit card. Essential: $2,499 per month billed annually, up to 20,000 assets. Enterprise (includes Infrastructure Backup and DR): custom pricing. Source: Firefly pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026 | Billed annually. Standard: $12k single-cloud or $18k multi-cloud, 25 core resources. Premium: $36k single-cloud or $54k multi-cloud, 50 core resources. Enterprise: custom, 100+ core resources. No storage charges from Arpio; cloud provider costs apply. Source: Arpio pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026 | Contact sales. Listed on the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud marketplaces. Source: Cloud Rewind pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026 |
Firefly wins 3, Arpio wins 4, ties 0 · Read Firefly vs Arpio
Firefly wins 5, Cloud Rewind wins 2, ties 0 · Read Firefly vs Cloud Rewind
Arpio wins 3, Cloud Rewind wins 4, ties 0 · Read Arpio vs Cloud Rewind
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