In most cloud environments, no system actually stores your cloud architecture relationships.
Security groups, routing rules, IAM permissions, load balancers, and SaaS configurations exist – but the relationships between them are not saved anywhere. When a security incident or outage occurs, teams discover too late that there is no historical record of how resources were connected, what depended on what, or how access paths were structured at the time things worked.
Introducing Architecture Time Machine
Architecture Time Machine is a capability within the ControlMonkey IaC Automation Platform that preserves your cloud architecture and security posture on a timeline.
Architecture Time Machine extends ControlMonkey’s Cloud Resilience platform by preserving your cloud architecture and resource dependencies over time, not just the resources themselves.
With daily environment snapshots, you can move backward on a timeline and explore how your infrastructure was connected at any point in time.
Key benefits:
- Rewind cloud architecture in time – View how resources and dependencies looked on any given day.
- Explore historical dependencies – Understand what was connected to what before a change or incident.
- Speed up incident investigation – Quickly answer “what changed?” without guesswork.
- Visualize complex environments – Interactive dependency graphs make large architectures easier to reason about.
- Reduce recovery blind spots – Restore with architectural confidence, not assumptions.
Who Benefits from Architecture Time Machine
Cloud & DevOps Managers – Get immediate answers during incidents. Understand what changed without relying on tribal knowledge or manual reconstruction.
Security & Compliance Teams – Validate historical configurations for audits (SOC, PCI, internal reviews) and investigate configuration drift over time.
Cloud Architects – Review how architecture evolved over time, Identify unintended complexity, sprawl, or anti-pattern, Use historical views to guide standardization and governance decision
CIO & CISO:
- Gain confidence that cloud recovery is predictable and provable
- Reduce operational and compliance risk tied to configuration loss
- Understand recovery readiness without diving into technical detail
Controlmonkey Cloud Disaster Recovery – for Configuration
When traffic drops, services break, or behavior changes unexpectedly, the root cause is often a dependency change – a security group update, a route table modification, or a detached resource.
Architecture Time Machine helps you:
- Improve visibility into historical cloud states
- Reduce risk during incident response and postmortems
- Strengthen alignment between IaC, reality, and recovery
- Scale cloud environments with confidence, knowing you can always look back
Get Started: Cloud DR Readiness Assessment
Before the next audit or incident, understand your real recovery risk.
The Cloud DR Readiness Assessment gives security and compliance leaders a clear, executive-level view of cloud configuration recovery — without disrupting production.
