RANK 01 OF 8 · INFRASTRUCTURE RECOVERY PLATFORM

Firefly review: cloud infrastructure recovery and resilience, scored

Short answer

Firefly ranks first (73.5) because it restores cloud configuration, networking, IAM and DNS as Terraform code and keeps a full change and drift history. It does not back up data contents, so it scores 30 on data protection, and its Backup and DR capability sits in a custom-priced Enterprise tier.

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

What does Firefly restore after an incident?

Firefly treats a cloud environment as something to be rebuilt from code. Backup policies select an application by tag, take snapshots on a schedule, and capture the resources that application depends on, such as its VPC, subnets and IAM instance profile. A restore generates Terraform for the selected resources, which then goes through Firefly's normal IaC flow for review and deployment. Its documentation lists coverage for 190 AWS resource types across 48 services and 86 Azure resource types across 14 services. Firefly is explicit that this is not data backup: its own page says data backup is not service continuity.

Data: Not covered or not published Does not document backing up data contents.
Configuration: Restored Resource configuration restored as Terraform.
Network: Restored VPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, WAF in coverage table.
IAM: Restored IAM roles, policies and users in coverage table.
DNS: Restored Route 53 and Azure Private DNS zones in coverage table.

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

How does Firefly score on each criterion?

Infrastructure coverage beyond data 20%86

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.

Recovery automation 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.

Cross-region and cross-account rebuild 14%82

Firefly documents cross-region and cross-account rebuild, including into a clean, isolated region or account after ransomware.

Drift and change history 12%92

Drift detection, mutation logs and a configuration history are core product features, not add-ons.

Restore as code (IaC generation) 10%94

Restores are generated as Terraform code, and codification covers Terraform, Pulumi and CloudFormation, so the recovered state is code the team keeps.

Data protection depth and cloud DR track record 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.

Pricing transparency 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.

Weighted total 73.5 out of 100, rank 01 of 8. How we score

Where does Firefly fall short?

Data. Firefly does not document backing up the contents of databases, volumes or buckets, so a full recovery needs a data backup product next to it; Veeam, Cohesity, Commvault Cloud Rewind and Arpio all score far higher here. Recovery is also a guided Terraform flow rather than an orchestrated failover, which is why Arpio (90) and Commvault Cloud Rewind (88) beat it on automation, and Arpio beats it on cross-region rebuild. Restores depend on Terraform provider support, which Firefly lists as a limitation. The RTO under one hour is Firefly's own claim. Google Cloud and OCI are inventoried but are not in the Backup and DR coverage table we read. And the Backup and DR features are in the Enterprise tier, which has no public price.

What does Firefly cost?

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

Who should shortlist Firefly?

Teams that already back up their data and whose real gap is getting the environment around it back: the accounts, networks, identity, DNS and managed services that took years of console clicks and scripts to build. Firefly suits estates that want the recovered environment as Terraform they keep, and teams that also want drift detection and IaC governance from the same product. Security leaders asked to show infrastructure recoverability for DORA or NIS2 will find Firefly's compliance messaging aimed at them.

Key facts and sources

Backup policies select applications by tag and run On-Demand, Daily, Weekly or Monthly.
Source: Firefly docs: Applications Backup & DR · Reviewed Sep 2026
Firefly captures the dependencies an application needs, such as VPC, subnet and IAM instance profile, and restores by generating Terraform code rather than making direct cloud changes.
Source: Firefly docs: Applications Backup & DR · Reviewed Sep 2026
Documented limitation: restoration depends on Terraform provider support.
Source: Firefly docs: Applications Backup & DR · Reviewed Sep 2026
Backup and DR coverage: 190 AWS resource types across 48 services and 86 Azure resource types across 14 services.
Source: Firefly docs: Service coverage · Reviewed Sep 2026
States an RTO under 1 hour and cross-region and cross-account rollback.
Source: Firefly: Cloud disaster recovery · Reviewed Sep 2026
Rebuild into a clean, isolated region or account and roll back to a point in time before a breach, from versioned IaC snapshots.
Source: Firefly: Cyber resilience · Reviewed Sep 2026
Codification supports Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation and Crossplane; inventory covers AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and Kubernetes.
Source: Firefly: Product · Reviewed Sep 2026
SaaS data sources in the docs include Okta, Entra ID, Datadog, GitHub, Cloudflare, New Relic, PagerDuty, MongoDB Atlas, Databricks, Akamai, NS1 and HashiCorp Vault.
Source: Firefly docs index · Reviewed Sep 2026
Named a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor in Platform Engineering for Abstracting Infrastructure Complexity.
Source: Firefly: Gartner Cool Vendor · Reviewed Sep 2026

Clouds: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Kubernetes

Delivery: SaaS

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Frequently asked questions about Firefly

Does Firefly back up data?

Not according to its public material. Firefly backs up and restores infrastructure configuration and dependencies as code, and its cloud disaster recovery page states that data backup is not service continuity. Pair it with a data backup product.

How does a Firefly restore work?

You open a snapshot, pick the resources, preview the Terraform that Firefly generates, and continue through its IaC orchestration flow. Firefly does not make direct changes to the cloud during a restore.

What does Firefly cost?

Essential is $2,499 a month billed annually for up to 20,000 assets. Infrastructure Backup and DR, configuration history, backup policies and ransomware-safe rollback are in Enterprise, which is custom priced. A 14-day trial with all capabilities needs no credit card.

By the Cloud Resilience Vendors research desk