RANK 05 OF 8 · DATA SECURITY AND BACKUP PLATFORM

Cohesity review: data recovery, clean rooms and Cloud Rebuild for AWS

Short answer

Cohesity ranks fifth (59.0). It scores 92 on data protection and offers a clean room and recovery orchestration, but its infrastructure rebuild, Cloud Rebuild, is stated only for select AWS workloads that are already defined in Terraform.

Ranking current as of September 2026 · By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk

What does Cohesity restore after an incident?

Cohesity protects cloud data, including EC2, RDS and S3 on AWS, self-managed or as a managed service, with cross-region recovery and an isolated recovery environment in AWS. Its clean room builds a Minimum Viable Recovery Environment where security teams can investigate an attack before restoring. Cloud Rebuild extends this to infrastructure and configuration by using a customer's validated IaC definitions to discover dependencies and restore to a known-good state.

Data: Restored EC2, RDS, S3 backup and recovery.
Configuration: Partial or not itemized Cloud Rebuild for select AWS workloads with existing IaC.
Network: Not covered or not published Not itemized on pages reviewed.
IAM: Not covered or not published Not itemized on pages reviewed.
DNS: Not covered or not published Not itemized on pages reviewed.

What the vendor's public material says it restores. Not a test result. Hatched = partial or not itemized.

How does Cohesity score on each criterion?

Infrastructure coverage beyond data 20%55

Cloud Rebuild restores infrastructure, configurations and data, but only for select AWS workloads in Terraform-provisioned environments.

Recovery automation 16%70

Recovery orchestration (RecoveryAgent) and an isolated recovery environment in AWS; infrastructure rebuild depends on existing IaC definitions.

Cross-region and cross-account rebuild 14%65

Cross-region recovery and an isolated recovery environment in AWS are stated; cross-account detail is not published.

Drift and change history 12%30

Drift detection and a configuration change history are not published.

Restore as code (IaC generation) 10%55

Uses your validated IaC definitions as the source of truth rather than generating new code.

Data protection depth and cloud DR track record 18%92

Broad data protection for EC2, RDS and S3 in self-managed or managed form, a clean room for investigation, and the combined Cohesity and Veritas business since December 2024.

Pricing transparency 10%20

No public price; Contact sales.

Weighted total 59.0 out of 100, rank 05 of 8. How we score

Where does Cohesity fall short?

Cloud Rebuild depends on IaC you already have and is limited to select AWS workloads, so it scores 55 on coverage. There is no published drift detection or change history, and no public price.

What does Cohesity cost?

Contact sales.

Source: Cohesity pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026

Who should shortlist Cohesity?

Organizations already on Cohesity or Veritas that want data recovery, threat investigation and some AWS infrastructure rebuild from one vendor. For estates with large unmanaged or multi-cloud infrastructure, pair it with an infrastructure recovery tool.

Key facts and sources

Cloud Rebuild restores infrastructure, configurations and data so applications run correctly after outages or cyberattacks.
Source: Cohesity: Cloud Rebuild · Reviewed Sep 2026
Cloud Rebuild uses validated IaC definitions to discover dependencies and restore, and is stated for select AWS workloads in Terraform-provisioned environments.
Source: Cohesity: Cloud Rebuild · Reviewed Sep 2026
AWS protection covers EC2, RDS and S3, self-managed or as a managed service, with cross-region recovery and an isolated recovery environment in AWS.
Source: Cohesity: AWS · Reviewed Sep 2026
A clean room builds a Minimum Viable Recovery Environment to investigate an attack before recovery.
Source: Cohesity: Clean room · Reviewed Sep 2026
Cohesity completed its merger with Veritas in December 2024.
Source: Wikipedia: Cohesity · Reviewed Sep 2026

Clouds: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud for data protection, Cloud Rebuild: select AWS workloads

Delivery: self-managed or fully managed (Cohesity Cloud Protection Services)

Cohesity, founded 2013; merger with Veritas completed December 2024.

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Frequently asked questions about Cohesity

What is Cohesity Cloud Rebuild?

A Cohesity capability that restores infrastructure, configurations and data for select AWS workloads, using your existing IaC definitions to find dependencies.

Does Cohesity have a clean room?

Yes. It describes a Minimum Viable Recovery Environment for investigating attacks before recovery.

Did Cohesity merge with Veritas?

Yes. The merger completed in December 2024.

By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk