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10 Best Okta Backup & Recovery Providers In 2026

Ori Yemini

Ori Yemini

CTO & Co-Founder

10 Best Okta Backup & Recovery Providers In 2026

A routine Okta cleanup goes wrong, and suddenly, 200 authentication policies are gone. 

In the old world, your team spends the next 10 days rebuilding them from memory and scattered documentation. 

In the new world, you restore your entire Okta configuration to a known-good state in minutes, because it was already backed up.

In this article, I’ll cover the best Okta backup and recovery solutions in 2026 that can help you safeguard your identity infrastructure, restore critical configurations in minutes, and keep your company operational during identity incidents.

TL;DR

  • ControlMonkey’s automated Okta configuration backup and one-click recovery make it the best Okta backup and recovery provider available.
  • ControlMonkey backs up your Okta configuration alongside your entire cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and over 30 SaaS platforms, whereas most Okta backup providers only protect identity data in isolation.
  • For teams seeking dedicated Okta-only backup with deep object-level coverage, platforms such as Acsense, Backupta, HYCU, and Keepit are excellent options.
  • Rubrik, MightyID, and Druva Data Security Cloud are good choices for enterprises that want Okta protection as part of a broader data security or identity resilience strategy. However, note that none of them protects the underlying cloud infrastructure configuration alongside Okta.

Why should you have an Okta backup solution?

The reason why you should have an Okta backup solution is that Okta backup platforms protect not just your identity data but the entire configuration that controls who can access what across your organization.

Without one, a single misconfigured authentication policy, accidentally deleted user group, or compromised admin credential can lock out your entire workforce and trigger hours of expensive downtime.

Traditional backup solutions don’t protect identity configurations like authentication policies, app assignments, authorization servers, or MFA rules.

They only restore files and databases.

When an incident strikes, an effective Okta backup solution guarantees business continuity, upholds SLA compliance, and permits recovery in minutes rather than days.

How to evaluate Okta backup and recovery providers?

The best way to evaluate Okta backup and recovery providers is to look at their recovery capabilities, your required backup scope and coverage, and their compliance and audit readiness.

#1: Recovery capabilities

We believe that backing up data is only half the equation.

What really matters during a disaster is how fast and how completely you can restore it.

If I were you, I’d look for providers that offer granular object-level restores, rollback to a known-good state, and point-in-time recovery so you can pick the exact moment before things went wrong.

This is why it’s worth considering what your target RTO and RPO are. For example, if your team is fine with 24 hours of identity downtime, traditional Okta backup solutions with manual restoration might not be a bad option.

But if your Okta tenant supports thousands of users accessing production systems, you need minute-level RPO and automated recovery that handles dependency ordering without human intervention.

For example, ControlMonkey delivers one-click recovery from any previous known-good state through our Time Machine capability, and also comes with automated dependency handling, which prevents failures during restoration.

#2: The required backup scope and coverage

The problem here is that not all Okta backup providers protect the same objects.

Some solutions will cover users and groups but skip authentication policies, authorization servers, or Okta Workflows.

Others, on the other hand, will back up application assignments but miss the SSO and provisioning configurations that make those assignments work.

This is why you should ask during a demo call for a full inventory of exactly which Okta objects are captured before committing to a solution.

But here’s the question most teams don’t ask: what happens to the rest of your infrastructure when Okta goes down?

The reality is that your cloud resources, DNS records, networking policies, and SaaS configurations are all connected to identity.

This is why ControlMonkey (that’s us!) protects Okta configuration as part of a broader infrastructure backup that spans AWS, Azure, GCP, Datadog, Cloudflare, and over 30 SaaS vendors, so you’re not just recovering identity in isolation.

#3: Compliance and audit readiness

We understand that highly regulated industries (e.g., high finance) need more than a backup.

You’d need proof that your backups are running, retention policies are enforced, and recovery has been tested in a safe environment (some options I’ll go over have sandbox environments).

You should pay close attention if the platforms have automated compliance validation against frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.

Providers that offer real-time DR readiness dashboards will give you visibility into what’s protected and what isn’t, so your engineering team doesn’t need to manually compile reports.

What are the 10 best Okta backup and recovery solutions in 2026?

The best Okta backup and recovery solutions on the market are ControlMonkey, Acsense, and Rubrik.

Here’s a breakdown of our 10 shortlisted solutions:

ToolFeaturesPricing
#1: ControlMonkeyAutomated daily Okta configuration snapshots, one-click recovery via Time Machine, backup across over 30 SaaS vendors and AWS, Azure, GCP, and real-time DR readiness dashboards.Custom pricing
#2: AcsenseAutomated tenant failover to air-gapped standby and recoverability testing.Custom pricing
#3: RubrikImmutable Okta backups in Rubrik-owned storage, granular in-place recovery, unified multi-IdP protection for Okta, AD, and Entra ID.Custom pricing
#4: HYCUOkta WIC and CIC backup, cross-instance restore, 80+ workload coverage, and R-Graph SaaS estate visualization.$1.20/user/month on its Workforce Identity Suite.
#5: KeepitVendor-independent infrastructure and anomaly detection dashboards.Custom pricing.
#6: BackuptaGit-based configuration storage, one-click revert, and release management for Okta configs.Custom pricing.
#7: RewindAutomated daily Okta snapshots, 365-day data retention, and on-demand exports.Currently free during Early Access.
#8: MightyIDMulti-IdP backup for Okta, Entra ID, and PingOne, cross-IdP failover, and attribute-level restores.Starts from $1.50/user/month for backup and $0.40/user for failover.
#9: Cohesity Identity ResilienceActive Directory and Entra ID hardening and recovery, clean room forensics, cyber vaulting, and Semperis-powered identity protection.Median buyer pays $24,937/year, according to Vendr.
#10: Druva Data Security CloudOkta identity data protection, sandbox recovery, AI-powered anomaly detection, and unified SaaS backup.The median reported cost is $41,634/year.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #1: ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey is the best Okta backup and recovery solution because it delivers Okta configuration protection as part of your entire infrastructure resilience strategy.

The problem with most Okta backup providers is that they focus exclusively on identity data.

We wanted to change that.

ControlMonkey restores your Okta configuration alongside DNS, CDN, networking, cloud resources, and SaaS platforms to ensure true business continuity when disasters strike.

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With Okta incidents making headlines, cloud teams, CISOs, and CIOs can’t afford to treat Okta backup as a standalone checkbox.

I’ve seen organizations often discover too late that their Okta recovery plan doesn’t account for the dozens of infrastructure dependencies that break when things go down.

Let’s go over ControlMonkey’s Okta backup and recovery features:

Total identity control

If your Okta configuration were lost tomorrow morning, how long until users could log in again?

ControlMonkey connects directly to your Okta tenant using read-only API access and runs continuous scans of your identity configuration.

ControlMonkey's Okta backup Total identity control

The result is a complete, real-time map of what exists and what state it’s in.

Our platform surfaces exactly what’s managed by Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and what isn’t, so you can close the blind spots that traditional Okta backup tools miss entirely.

This matters because Okta configurations change constantly:

  • Authentication policies get updated. 
  • App assignments shift. 
  • Authorization servers are modified.

Many of these changes happen outside of IaC, which further creates gaps that leave your organization exposed.

ControlMonkey picks up these changes automatically, turns them into deployable Terraform-based infrastructure definitions, and stores each snapshot as a versioned record in your Git repository for complete audit trails.

You can learn more about how our Okta-Terraform integration works.

Okta backup and governance

Your infrastructure extends far beyond Okta.

I’m talking about routing rules, networking policies, Datadog dashboards, Cloudflare configurations, and cloud resources, which all change constantly.

While other platforms back up your Okta tenant in isolation, ControlMonkey protects configuration across over 30 SaaS vendors, including Datadog, Cloudflare, MongoDB, Snowflake, and more.

Imagine your Datadog monitoring dashboards being wiped out in a cyberattack at the same time your Okta policies were compromised.

You’d lose identity access and production visibility simultaneously.

With ControlMonkey, both are backed up daily, versioned, and recoverable from the same platform.

ControlMonkey dashboard

Our platform also provides enterprise-grade governance without requiring your team to write or maintain custom policies.

We include out-of-the-box security, compliance, and cost guardrails along with AI-driven Quality Gates and IaC risk scoring.

Every infrastructure change is automatically evaluated for risk and compliance before being applied.

And we keep a complete audit trail for compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.

Time Machine: Okta disaster recovery

When incidents or cyberattacks hit your Okta tenant, I know how speed determines whether you face minutes of disruption or days of downtime.

This is why we designed ControlMonkey’s one-click recovery system to eliminate the manual fixes that keep you in firefighting mode.

Recovery happens in three steps:

  1. Your team picks any previous known-good state using our Time Machine capability. That could be from 2 hours ago or 2 weeks ago.
  2. Depending on severity, recovery can be hands-off or reviewed first. Critical incidents trigger automatic rollbacks while routine fixes go through an approval step before deployment.
  3. Dependency ordering is handled for you. This reduces human error and prevents cascading failures during restoration.
Disaster Recovery ControlMonkey

This instant recovery capability helps you meet strict SLA targets and maintain business continuity during security incidents, misconfigurations, or accidental deletions.

Snapshots are stored securely in your Git repository. Backup frequency ranges from an hour to a day, depending on your configuration.

Full visibility into DR readiness with no manual effort

Our platform continuously validates DR readiness across your organization.

That means compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and other frameworks.

ControlMonkey provides you with a single pane of glass to continuously review cloud DR readiness through our Cloud Resilience Dashboard.

You’ll be able to track progress over time, identify gaps before incidents occur, and demonstrate compliance during audits.

DR readiness ControlMonkey

This executive visibility transforms disaster recovery from a technical checkbox into a strategic capability that reduces business risk.

The dashboard shows exactly how many resources are backed up, which accounts have DR enabled, and your resilience score across every cloud account and third-party platform.In practice, this means your CISO can answer “What is our Okta recovery posture?” in seconds rather than days.

ControlMonkey vs. traditional Okta backup providers

Traditional Okta backup tools protect your identity data in isolation, while ControlMonkey backs up your Okta configuration alongside your entire cloud infrastructure and over 30 SaaS platforms.

That means you’re recovering everything that depends on identity, not just identity itself.

Most Okta backup providers protect your identity tenant and nothing else.

That’s a real limitation.

When your Okta configuration breaks, the blast radius extends to every system that depends on it, including your:

  • Cloud infrastructure.
  • SaaS tools.
  • Networking policies
  • Monitoring dashboards.

This is why we believe that recovering Okta in isolation doesn’t help if the rest of your infrastructure is still broken.

ControlMonkey treats Okta as one piece of a larger infrastructure resilience puzzle.

We back up your Okta configuration alongside AWS, Azure, GCP, Datadog, Cloudflare, and over 30 other SaaS platforms from a single console.

Controlmonkey DR and SaaS Config BackUp

The way we do it is that our platform converts everything into Terraform-based definitions so recovery is deterministic, not manual.

For teams that only need Okta backup and nothing else, a dedicated Okta backup tool might be the right fit.

However, for organizations running production workloads across multiple clouds and SaaS platforms, ControlMonkey delivers the infrastructure-wide resilience that standalone identity backup tools can’t match.

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Ready for True Cloud Resilience?

ControlMonkey protects your entire cloud environment – from infrastructure to SaaS configurations like Okta – with automated backups and instant recovery. No custom scripts, no complex DR processes.

Pricing

ControlMonkey offers 2 pricing plans:

  • Startup: $800 for up to 10 users, up to 5,000 cloud assets, up to 500 deployments/month, and access to our Terraform code generator, Terraform CI/CD, policy enforcement, drift detection and remediation capabilities, self-service dashboard, RBAC, and self-hosted agent.
  • Enterprise: Custom pricing for unlimited cloud assets, users, and deployments, and adds premium support.
ControlMonkey pricing

Pros & Cons

✅ Okta configuration backup alongside AWS, Azure, GCP, and over 30 SaaS platforms from a single console.

✅ One-click recovery via Time Machine restores any environment to a known-good state in minutes.

✅ Full visibility into DR readiness with real-time dashboards and IaC coverage mapping across your entire infrastructure.

✅ Audit-ready compliance with continuous validation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.

✅ 24/7 VIP support over Microsoft Teams, Slack, email, and ticketing.

❌ Does not cover Okta data backup, as ControlMonkey focuses on infrastructure and SaaS configuration, not identity data.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #2: Acsense

Acsense

Acsense is an IAM resilience platform built specifically for Okta, which offers deep Okta object coverage.

The platform captures the full dependency graph between users, groups, apps, and policies, then replays restoration logic in the correct order during recovery.

Acsense Features

Acsense Features
  • Dependency-aware orchestrated recovery: A restored user automatically gets their group memberships and app assignments back without manual rework.
  • Automated tenant failover: If your production Okta tenant goes down, Acsense can fail over to this DR-ready clone automatically.
  • Recoverability testing and scoring: Within 24 hours of initial backup, Acsense generates an automated health score that validates whether your backups can actually be restored. 

Acsense Pricing

Acsense’s pricing is custom, so you’ll need to contact them to get a quote.

Acsense Pros & Cons

✅ Good Okta object coverage available, including Workflows, authorization servers, and branding templates.

✅ Automated tenant failover capabilities.

✅ Built specifically for Okta.

❌ Okta-only focus means you’ll need separate tools for cloud infrastructure and other SaaS platform protection.

❌ Pricing is not disclosed.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #3: Rubrik

Rubrik

Rubrik is an enterprise data security platform that added dedicated Okta Recovery as part of its broader Identity Recovery suite.

The platform stores all backups in Rubrik-owned cloud infrastructure with immutability and logical air-gapping from the customer’s Okta tenant.

Rubrik Features

Rubrik Features
  • Unified multi-IdP recovery: Rubrik is one of the few platforms that can recover Okta, Active Directory, and Microsoft Entra ID from a single console.
  • Immutable zero-trust backup architecture: All Okta backup data sits in Rubrik-owned infrastructure, where it cannot be altered, deleted, or encrypted by attackers.
  • Conflict resolution and merge controls: During recovery, you can preview proposed changes and choose between Merge and Overwrite modes.

Rubrik Pricing

Rubrik’s pricing is custom and not publicly disclosed for the Okta-specific module.According to third-party data from Vendr, reported deals reach up to $601,917 per year, with $192,384/year on the low end: based on data from 3 purchases.

Rubrik Pricing

Rubrik Pros & Cons

✅ You can preview proposed changes and choose between Merge and Overwrite modes.

✅ Multi-IdP recovery from a single console spans Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID.

✅ Immutable, air-gapped backups.

❌ The Okta product is still very new, so I couldn’t find any Okta-specific customer reviews.

❌ Enterprise pricing and platform scope may be excessive for teams that only need Okta backup without the broader Rubrik Security Cloud.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #4: HYCU

HYCU

HYCU R-Cloud is a SaaS data protection platform that covers over 80 workloads, including a dedicated Okta module backed by a strategic investment from Okta Ventures.

The platform stands out for covering both Okta Workforce Identity Cloud and Okta Customer Identity Cloud from the same dashboard.

HYCU Features

HYCU Features
  • R-Graph SaaS estate visualization: Before you even start backing up, HYCU’s free R-Graph tool connects to your Okta tenant and maps your entire SaaS estate.
  • Cross-instance restore: HYCU can restore Okta data to a different Okta instance for sandbox testing of recovery procedures.
  • Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS): Backups are stored in the customer’s own S3-compatible cloud storage.

HYCU Pricing (for Okta)

HYCU’s pricing for Okta is $1.20/user/month on its Workforce Identity Suite.

That means, for example, that you’d be paying $1,200/month for 1,000 Okta users.

HYCU Pros & Cons

✅ Good workload coverage, with over 80 protected SaaS applications from a single console.

✅ One of the few platforms covering both Okta WIC and CIC (Auth0).

✅ Okta Ventures-backed, which signals deep product integration and long-term commitment to the Okta ecosystem.

❌ The BYOS model adds storage cost complexity that may surprise teams expecting an all-inclusive price.

❌ Pricing can get expensive for large companies that have thousands of employees on Okta.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #5: Keepit

Keepit

Keepit is a Danish SaaS data protection company that differentiates itself through a vendor-independent cloud infrastructure it owns and operates through Equinix data centers across seven global regions.

Its defining characteristic is complete independence from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Keepit Features

Keepit Features
  • Vendor-independent immutable storage: Keepit runs its own dedicated infrastructure, which eliminates supply chain risk from public cloud providers.
  • Anomaly detection dashboards: The platform compares backup data over time to flag irregularities and unexpected changes in your Okta configuration.
  • Granular Okta object coverage: Backs up a wide range of objects across four categories: identity and access management, platform management, security and governance, and applications and integrations.

Keepit Pricing

Keepit’s pricing is custom, so you’d have to contact their team to get a quote.

Keepit Pros & Cons

✅ Independent infrastructure eliminates cloud provider supply chain risk.

✅ Comes with anomaly detection dashboards.

✅ Vendor-independent immutable storage.

❌ Pricing is not published.

❌ Fewer total SaaS workloads (roughly 17) compared to HYCU’s 80.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #6: Backupta

Backupta

Backupta is an Okta-validated backup and recovery solution built exclusively for the Okta ecosystem.

Backupta Features

Backupta Features
  • Git-based configuration storage: All backup data is stored in the customer’s own Git infrastructure.
  • Release management for Okta configs: Backupta can push configuration changes between preview and production Okta tenants, which is essentially creating a CI/CD workflow for identity configuration. 
  • Event-based one-click revert: You can identify suspicious changes and revert them with a single click.

Backupta Pricing

Backupta’s pricing is custom, so you’d have to contact them to get a quote.

Backupta Pros & Cons

✅ Okta-validated backup solution, which has been built for Okta.

✅ Identify suspicious changes and revert them with a single click.

✅ All backup data is stored in your Git infrastructure.

❌ Okta-only focus means you’ll need entirely separate tools for cloud infrastructure, networking, and other SaaS platform protection.

❌ Pricing is not publicly available.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #7: Rewind

Rewind

Rewind is a SaaS backup company that covers 14 platforms, including Shopify, GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.

The company recently launched Okta backup support, but it remains in Early Access with a critical limitation.

Rewind Features

Rewind Features
  • Broad SaaS backup ecosystem: Rewind protects 14 SaaS platforms from a single console.
  • Strong security practices, including SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA.
  • Automated daily backups, restore support, and international data residency.

Rewind Pricing

Rewind’s Okta backup is currently free during Early Access.

Rewind Pros & Cons

✅ Automated daily backups.

✅ SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA compliant.

✅ Currently free for Okta backup with no commitment required.

❌ We’re not sure what the pricing will be in the future when it’s not free.

❌ The Okta offering is Early Access only, with no timeline announced for general availability or restore capabilities.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #8: MightyID

MightyID

MightyID is an identity resilience platform that covers Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and PingOne. 

Its unique capability is failing over between different identity providers during emergencies.

MightyID Features

MightyID Features
  • Cross-IdP failover and migration: MightyID can fail over from one identity provider to another in emergency scenarios (Okta to Entra ID, for example)
  • Attribute-level restores: Instead of recovering an entire user object, MightyID enables recovery of specific user fields (department, employee ID, or title) without touching other data.
  • Okta Workflow and table backup, which helps you protect automation logic.

MightyID Pricing

MightyID’s pricing starts from $1.50/user/month if your organization supports 500 – 2,500 accounts, with failover starting from $0.40/user.

If your organization has fewer than 500 users, you’d be paying $2/user/month with $0.50/user during failover.

For enterprises with more than 2,500 employees, there’s an enterprise plan for multiple IdP’s.

MightyID Pros & Cons

✅ Covering Okta, Entra ID, and PingOne with cross-IdP failover between them.

✅ Attribute-level restores and Okta Workflow backup were both market firsts.

✅ 225+ successful restores under its belt.

❌ Recently acquired, so the product roadmap remains uncertain, and pricing might change.

❌ More expensive than other platforms on the market.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #9: Cohesity Identity Resilience

Cohesity Identity Resilience

Cohesity Identity Resilience combines Cohesity’s data protection platform with Semperis’ identity security expertise.

The product focuses on Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID hardening, backup, and recovery.

Cohesity Identity Resilience Features

Cohesity Identity Resilience Features
  • Proactive AD security hardening: The platform scans Active Directory environments for Indicators of Exposure to help you identify vulnerabilities and attack paths.
  • Clean room forensic investigation: Integration with Cohesity Clean Room provides an isolated environment for post-breach forensic analysis.
  • Cyber vaulting with immutable storage: Backup data is protected through Cohesity FortKnox, which provides air-gapped, immutable storage.

Cohesity Identity Resilience Pricing

Cohesity’s identity resilience pricing is custom, so you’d have to contact them to get a quote, although Vendr data suggests that the median buyer pays $24,937/year for the software from the 18 purchases they’ve handled for them.

Cohesity Identity Resilience Pricing

Cohesity Identity Resilience Pros & Cons

✅ Scans Active Directory environments for Indicators of Exposure.

✅ Post-breach forensics and proactive security hardening go well beyond basic backup and restore.

✅ Semperis’ identity expertise is industry-leading for Active Directory environments.

❌ It covers Active Directory and Entra ID only.

❌ Pricing is custom.

Okta Backup & Recovery Provider #10: Druva Data Security Cloud

Druva Data Security Cloud

Druva is a cloud-native data security platform with a fully managed SaaS architecture built entirely on AWS.

It offers Okta identity data protection alongside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, endpoints, and cloud workload backup from a single console.

Druva Data Security Cloud Features

Druva Data Security Cloud Features
  • Sandbox recovery for identity data: Druva can restore Okta data to a sandbox environment for validation before applying changes to production.
  • AI-powered threat monitoring: The platform’s Threat Watch feature continuously monitors backup data for anomalies and indicators of compromise.
  • Zero-infrastructure SaaS delivery: Everything runs as a fully managed service on AWS, which reduces operational overhead.

Druva Data Security Cloud Pricing

Druva’s pricing is custom, so you’d have to contact their team to get a quote. According to 3rd-party data fromVendr, based on 22 purchases, the median Druva buyer pays $41,634/year, with costs ranging up to $118,519/year.

Druva Data Security Cloud Pricing

Druva Data Security Cloud Pros & Cons

✅ Enterprise scale with FedRAMP certification.

✅ Covering Okta, SaaS apps, endpoints, and cloud workloads.

✅ Sandbox recovery for safe validation of identity restores before production changes.

❌ Okta-specific object coverage documentation is less granular than dedicated Okta backup specialists.

❌ Pricing is not custom.

Ensure fast and automated Okta recovery before it’s too late with ControlMonkey

Okta outages don’t fail businesses because identity data is lost.

They fail because identity configuration cannot be rebuilt fast enough, accurately enough, or completely enough.

That’s the uncomfortable truth most Okta backup strategies ignore.

When authentication policies are broken, app assignments are misconfigured, authorization servers are missing, and nobody knows what the last working state looked like, having a list of backed-up users becomes irrelevant.

You may still have your identity data, but you’ve lost the ability to operate.

This is where ControlMonkey fundamentally changes what “Okta backup and recovery” means.

While the rest of the market is still trying to protect identity objects in isolation, ControlMonkey protects the thing that actually runs your business: your entire infrastructure configuration, including Okta.

Every rule, permission, policy, dependency, and integration that makes your cloud environment function is continuously captured, versioned, and recoverable.

Not partially. Not manually. Not someday. Always.

ControlMonkey removes the two biggest risks in Okta disaster recovery:

  • Uncertainty: Not knowing what your Okta configuration looked like before the incident.
  • Slowness: Not being able to restore it before the business feels real damage.

ControlMonkey isn’t the best Okta backup and recovery provider because it backs up more identity objects. 

It’s the best because it protects everything that makes your cloud work, including Okta.

When disaster strikes, ControlMonkey doesn’t give you tasks. It gives you outcomes.

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    • Security Foundations for Modern Organizations: Covers core security principles, risk management, defense in depth, and practical implementation guidance to address today’s fast-moving cyber threat landscape.
    • Reference Guide to Security, Backup & Disaster Recovery Controls: High-level, standalone chapters outlining best-practice controls -including resilience, backup strategies, and disaster recovery planning -to strengthen organizational protection.

    10. The Disaster Recovery Handbook by Michael Wallace & Lawrence Webber

    The Disaster Recovery Handbook by Michael Wallace & Lawrence Webber

    • A comprehensive, step‑by‑step manual for building enterprise‑grade DR programmes.
    • Practical Tools, Templates & Checklists: Includes project management guidance, communication plans, pandemic considerations, and ready-to-use forms to prepare for and recover from real-world disasters.

    How ControlMonkey Supports Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies

    Reading about cloud backup and DR is one thing, operationalizing those best practices across real cloud environments is another. That’s where ControlMonkey comes in. It takes the principles covered in these books and turns them into living, automated workflows for Cloud Config and Cloud operations.

    ControlMonkey delivers Disaster recovery for cloud infrastructure and 3rd Party configuration ensuring organizations can restore how their cloud was configured.

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    Don’t Leave Your Cloud and SaaS Out of Disaster Recovery

    Traditional backup tools secure data. ControlMonkey secures configurations, SaaS, and your cloud control plane

    2 Backup Books to Complement Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy

    Now that we’ve covered disaster recovery, it’s worth sharpening your broader cloud resilience strategy.

    These cloud backup books are essential reading, giving CIOs and security leaders the insight and hands‑on know‑how needed to protect the business when it matters most.

    1. Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems 

    Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems by W. Curtis Preston

    • A foundational guide that demystifies backup architecture and offers practical, cost‑effective strategies for protecting data across diverse systems.

    2. Cloud Storage Forensics 

    Cloud Storage Forensics by Ben Martini, Darren Quick and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

    • A technical guide to investigating, validating, and securing cloud‑stored data, giving security teams the insight needed to manage risk and maintain integrity.
    • Investigate and Validate Cloud Backup Evidence: Introduces an evidence-based framework for identifying, preserving, and analyzing data remnants across cloud backup platforms and client devices.
    • Understand Legal and Recovery Implications of Cloud Backup: Covers proper procedures, service provider coordination, and compliance considerations to ensure backup data can support investigations and disaster recovery efforts.
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    Cyber Resilience in 2026: Data + Infrastructure + Network Control Plane

    Data Backup alone is not enough. Protect your cloud configurations, SaaS apps, and control plane from costly downtime.

    3 Backup and Disaster Recovery Podcasts for Cloud Leaders

    If you prefer to learn on the move or absorb insights through conversation rather than text, these podcasts offer sharp, practical perspectives on cloud backup, data protection, and resilience.

    1. The Backup Wrap‑up
    2. Data Protection Gumbo
    3. AWS Podcast – Resilience & Recovery Episodes

    Communities for Backup and Disaster Recovery Professionals

    Veeam Community Hub

    One of the most active global communities for cloud backup, DR, cyber‑resilience, and data protection  – even if you don’t use Veeam. Frequent expert AMAs, webinars, and deep technical discussions. Learn More

    Rubrik Community

    A highly active hub focused on backup, disaster recovery, and cyber‑resilience. Ideal for leaders who want deep technical discussions, real‑world recovery insights, and best practices for securing and restoring critical data across hybrid and cloud environments .Learn More

    LinkedIn Groups Focused on Cloud Resilience

    Active professional communities where CIOs, architects, and security leaders share insights on cloud reliability, DR, and data protection.

    Take Control of Cloud Resilience with ControlMonkey

    In today’s cloud‑driven enterprise, CIOs are defined by how well they control complexity, reduce risk, and keep infrastructure resilient. That requires more than experience, it demands discipline, visibility, and the right automation.

    ControlMonkey delivers exactly that. It enforces cloud governance automatically, exposes hidden misconfigurations and drift, and keeps environments consistent, compliant, and recoverable. It gives technology leaders clarity and control by removing the noise and operational guesswork.

    Books build knowledge. ControlMonkey enforces resilient cloud infrastructure, SaaS configurations, and disaster recovery guardrails automatically. Book a Live Cloud DR Demo →.

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      10 Best Cloud Backup Services & Solutions In 2026

      Ori Yemini

      Ori Yemini

      CTO & Co-Founder

      10 Best Cloud Backup Services & Solutions In 2026

      Have you been looking for the best cloud backup solutions to protect your critical data, cloud and infrastructure, minimize the risk of loss, and ensure long-term resilience and compliance?

      In this article, I’ll explore the top cloud backup solutions that can help you securely store data, automate backups, enable fast recovery, and maintain reliable operations in the face of cyber threats or unexpected disruptions.

      TL;DR

      • The best cloud backup solution on the market is ControlMonkey, which provides infrastructure backup and covers network, IAM, DNS, and SaaS configuration, not just data.
      • Although tools like Backblaze, iDrive, CrashPlan, Carbonite, and Acronis are great for backing up files, VMs, and application data, they do not support capturing versions of cloud configurations like IAM, network settings, or DNS.
      • Commvault, Druva, and Veeam are examples of vendors that offer immutable backups, air-gapped storage, cross-account restores, and cleanroom
      • Wasabi provides fast object storage that is immutable, low in cost, and predictable in pricing, although its orchestration, recovery logic, and environment reconstruction depend on using different tools.

      Why should you have a cloud backup solution?

      Cloud backup solutions are critical because infrastructure configurations, including networks, IAM policies, DNS settings, and security rules, change constantly and can be lost due to misconfigurations, human error, or cyber attacks. 

      Without proper backup, recovering from these incidents will require your team to spend hours of manual work, which can result in costly downtime.

      Let alone the potential SLA violations.

      Beware that a traditional data backup solution wouldn’t address infrastructure configuration loss, which might leave your critical cloud resources vulnerable. 

      An infrastructure disaster recovery solution would ensure continuity of operations with instant restoration of your entire cloud environment to a known-good state.

      What factors should you consider when evaluating cloud backup providers?

      #1: Recovery capability (RPO and RTO)

      Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) determine how much data you can afford to lose and how quickly you can restore operations after an incident. 

      A good cloud backup solution should offer daily or continuous snapshots of your infrastructure configurations to help you minimize potential data loss between backup intervals.

      The ability to restore entire environments with one-click rollback, rather than manual scripting and intervention, can directly impact your RTO and ensure you meet critical SLA compliance targets.

      #2: Breadth of supported services (cloud providers and 3rd party providers)

      Your backup solution must cover all the platforms where your infrastructure lives, including multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as critical third-party services. 

      To be fair, some SaaS providers offer limited native backup or retention. However, it’s often time-limited, not controlled by you, and not really designed for full environment reconstruction.

      We’ve seen that many organizations rely on SaaS configurations from providers like Datadog, Cloudflare, F5, and Okta for identity, networking, and security, but all of them require backup protection. 

      A comprehensive solution should provide end-to-end coverage across different vendors to make sure that no blind spots exist in your disaster recovery strategy.

      #3: Pricing and total cost of ownership

      Finally, consider not just the subscription price but also the total impact of downtime, manual recovery efforts, and potential SLA penalties.

      Solutions that automate daily backups and enable instant recovery reduce the hidden costs associated with DevOps teams spending hours on manual fixes.

      Look for pricing models that scale with your cloud configuration count so that you can pay only for what you need while maintaining complete infrastructure resilience.

      What are the 10 best cloud backup solutions in 2026?

      The best cloud backup services and solutions in 2026 are ControlMonkey, Backblaze, and IDrive.

      Here’s a breakdown of the disaster recovery backup solutions we shortlisted:

      ToolFeaturesPricing
      #1: ControlMonkeyAutomated daily infrastructure snapshots across AWS, Azure, GCP and SaaS vendors, one-click rollback for full environments and individual resources, and version-controlled infrastructure as code stored in Git.Custom pricing.
      #2: BackblazeUnlimited automatic file backups for Mac and Windows devices, enterprise management with SSO support, and flexible restore options including web and mailed drives.Starts from $99 per year per computer.
      #3: IDriveCentralized backup for multiple computers, servers, and mobile devices, zero downtime backup for SQL, Exchange, VMware and Oracle servers, and physical data transfer with IDrive Express.
      Starts from $69.65 per year.
      #4: CrashPlanContinuous file backup every 15 minutes, endpoint server and SaaS backups for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and role-based access controls for restores.Custom pricing.
      #5: CommvaultEnterprise data protection across cloud on premise and hybrid environments, ransomware defense with immutable storage, and isolated cleanroom recovery testing.Custom pricing.
      #6: CarboniteAlways-on encrypted file and image backups, instant cloud-based file recovery, and ransomware recovery assistance with guided restores.Starts from $24 per month.
      #7: DruvaCloud-native backup for AWS and Azure workloads, global deduplication and compression to reduce storage costs, and cross-account recovery for compromised environments.The median cost has been reported to be $41,634 per year.
      #8: Veeam Cloud BackupAutomated cloud native backup for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, immutable and air gapped ransomware protection, and multiple recovery options, including VM and file-level restores.Custom pricing.
      #9: WasabiHigh-performance object storage for backups, built-in immutability with Object Lock, and zero egress and API fees for predictable pricing.Starts from $6.99 per TB per month.
      #10:  Acronis Cyber ProtectUnified platform for backup, disaster recovery and endpoint security, full image and file-level backups across cloud and on-premise, and immutable backups for ransomware protection.Starts from $85 per year.

      Cloud Backup Solution #1: ControlMonkey

      ControlMonkey offers the best cloud backup solution on the market with its automated daily infrastructure snapshots, DR readiness, and one-click rollback capability.

      Our platform is not a classic data backup service like Backblaze or IDrive. 

      Instead, ControlMonkey is a cloud infrastructure disaster recovery and governance solution focused on cloud configurations (e.g., networks, IAM, DNS, policies, etc.), instead of raw file or database data backups.

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      What Happens If Your Cloud Configuration Disappears Tomorrow?

      ControlMonkey protects the layer most backup tools ignore – your infrastructure – so you can recover entire environments, not just files.

      Unlike standard backup vendors that store your backed-up files in a cloud object store (e.g., AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Wasabi), ControlMonkey stores and version-controls cloud configurations as IaC code and maintains snapshots of those configs.

      Spacelift-VS-ControlMonkey-VS-Terrafrom

      Let’s go over ControlMonkey’s cloud resilience and disaster recovery capabilities to show you why enterprises like Intel, AWS and Comcast can’t imagine their cloud without ControlMonkey:

      Automated Daily Backups

      The problem is that most DevOps teams discover their backup gaps during outages, not before them.

      Manual backup processes leave critical infrastructure configurations unprotected, and when an IAM policy gets accidentally deleted or a network misconfiguration breaks production, traditional tools only restore your data while leaving you to manually rebuild everything else.

      ControlMonkey backs up your entire cloud environment (including networks, IAM, DNS, policies, configs) and restores it to a known-good state with a single click.

      ControlMonkey disaster recovery

      Our platform does this via daily Terraform-based snapshots and one-click rollback, which covers AWS, Azure, GCP and more.

      Continuously, ControlMonkey captures exact infrastructure configuration across all of your cloud accounts and regions to convert configuration into deployable infrastructure definitions that can be restored instantly, and commits each snapshot as a versioned record in your Git repository for complete audit trails.

      ControlMonkey Solutions

      Snapshots are stored securely in your Git repository, with backup frequency ranging from 30 minutes to half a day, depending on the size of your cloud environment.

      Time Machine: Cloud Disaster Recovery

      From our experience, when incidents or cyber attacks occur, speed determines whether you face minutes of disruption or days of downtime. 

      Infrastructure teams waste hours in firefighting mode trying to figure out what changed, when it changed, and what the working configuration looked like before everything broke.

      ControlMonkey’s Time Machine capability lets you track back to any IAM policy or DNS configuration from previous days. 

      That configuration already resides in your version control system, written in Terraform and ready to deploy. Put simply: click the restore button, and you’re back in business.

      Disaster Recovery ControlMonkey

      Your team can restore individual resources or full environments using any previous known-good state. 

      Recovery can be manual or automated, depending on severity: critical incidents trigger automatic rollbacks while routine fixes can be reviewed before deployment.

      Dependencies and ordering are handled automatically to reduce human error and prevent cascading failures during restoration.

      ControlMonkey Cloud Disaster Recovery Dashbord

      Complete Visibility Into DR Readiness With No Manual Effort

      ControlMonkey connects using read-only access and native cloud APIs to discover every asset across your infrastructure footprint. 

      With zero manual effort, your team will be able to see what’s covered by IaC, what isn’t, and what’s ready for the next disaster.

      Our platform provides real-time visibility into:

      • Cloud resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP with account and region coverage.
      • SaaS and third-party configurations, including identity, networking, and security platforms.
      • Resources managed and unmanaged by IaC, so your team can identify coverage gaps before disasters strike.
      DR Readiness - Complete Visibility

      Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Support

      Your infrastructure extends far beyond cloud resources. 

      Routing rules, identity permissions, networking policies, SaaS configurations, and cloud resources change constantly, and many of these changes happen outside IaC.

      Traditional DR plans ignore this problem: configuration drift in third-party platforms creates blind spots that leave your organization vulnerable.

      ControlMonkey supports infrastructure disaster recovery across AWS, Azure, GCP, and 30+ third-party vendors, including DataDog, Cloudflare, Okta, and F5. 

      Our platform ensures consistent rollback strategies regardless of the vendor.

      While other solutions back up your cloud data, ControlMonkey protects configuration across all these platforms. 

      When a critical Datadog monitor gets misconfigured or a Cloudflare routing rule is accidentally deleted, ControlMonkey can restore these configurations instantly. 

      You can identify gaps in your recoverability from accidental resource deletion or cloud outages with our Free Cloud Resilience Assessment Report.

      Disaster recovery assessment report

      ControlMonkey vs. Traditional Cloud Backup

      The main difference between ControlMonkey and traditional cloud backup solutions is that traditional tools focus exclusively on protecting files and databases (leaving your infrastructure configurations exposed), while ControlMonkey treats infrastructure configurations as code.

      With ControlMonkey, every network rule, IAM policy, DNS setting, and SaaS configuration is captured, versioned, and stored as deployable Terraform code in your Git repository. 

      This means you can restore not just your data, but the entire environment that runs your applications.

      When your load balancer settings are accidentally changed or your VPC configuration breaks, standard backup tools will offer zero help because they never captured that infrastructure state in the first place.

      This difference becomes critical during real incidents when every minute of downtime costs your business money and damages your reputation. 

      Our platform also continuously validates DR readiness for automated compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and other frameworks.

      ControlMonkey Cloud Resilience Dashboard

      Pricing

      ControlMonkey offers only 2 pricing plans:

      • Startup: $800 for up to 10 users, up to 5,000 cloud assets, up to 500 deployments/month, and access to our Terraform code generator, Terraform CI/CD, policy enforcement, drift detection and remediation capabilities, self-service dashboard, RBAC, and self-hosted agent.
      • Enterprise: Custom pricing for unlimited cloud assets, users, and deployments, and adds specialized support.
      ControlMonkey pricing

      Pros & Cons

      ✅ Automated snapshots back up cloud configurations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

      ✅ Backs up SaaS configurations from Datadog, Cloudflare, F5, Okta, and 30+ platforms.

      ✅ Real-time dashboards provide complete visibility into DR readiness and IaC coverage.

      ✅ One-click recovery and daily snapshots reduce RTO and RPO.

      ✅ Continuous compliance validation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS keeps you audit-ready.

      ✅ VIP support available 24/7 through Microsoft Teams, Slack, email, and ticketing.

      ❌ Focuses on infrastructure configurations rather than data backup for files or databases

      Cloud Backup Solution #2: Backblaze

      Backblaze Cloud Backup Solution

      Backblaze is a cloud backup option for businesses looking to protect workstation data with unlimited storage at a fixed price of $99 per year per computer.

      The solution focuses on automated file and database backup through continuous monitoring of user data across Mac and Windows devices.

      Backblaze Features

      Backblaze Features
      • Unlimited and automatic backup: Lightweight Mac and PC clients back up all user data to secure cloud storage by default, without any required actions or slowdowns for team members.
      • Enterprise management with SSO: Advanced administration with OIDC SSO support for Okta and Azure AD, plus legal hold capabilities available through the Enterprise Control add-on.
      • Flexible restore options: You’ll be able to restore files to any device with no size limits through web-based restores, a dedicated restore app, or mailed hard drive restores.
      • You’ll also be able to protect Veeam backups with its immutable, virtually air-gapped B2 Cloud Storage.

      Backblaze Pricing

      Backblaze Business Backup costs $99 per year per computer.

      You can also add its Enterprise Control features that add OIDC SSO support, enhanced backup lockdowns, and restricted restore access for $24 per year per computer.

      Backblaze Pricing

      Backblaze Pros & Cons

      ✅ Unlimited backup at a predictable $99 per year per computer with no restrictions on file size or type.

      ✅ Automated continuous backup runs.

      ✅ Forever file version retention.

      ❌ Focuses exclusively on data backup for files and databases, leaving infrastructure configurations unprotected during cloud outages or misconfigurations.

      ❌ Lacks visibility into what percentage of your overall infrastructure is actually protected and ready for disaster recovery.

      Cloud Backup Solution #3: IDrive

      IDrive Cloud Backup Solution

      IDrive is a viable cloud backup option for businesses that need to consolidate backups from multiple devices into a single account.

      The solution focuses on automated file and database backup across computers, servers, and mobile devices with encryption and compliance features.

      IDrive Features

      IDrive Features
      • Multiple device backup under one account: The platform backs up all computers, servers, and smart devices into a single IDrive account.
      • Server cloud backup with zero downtime: Backs up MS SQL Server, on-premise MS Exchange Server, VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle Server, System State, and Linux Servers without interrupting services.
      • IDrive Express for large data transfers: The tool will provide you with a quick backup and retrieval of data in less than a week via physical storage shipment, ensuring no bandwidth usage for initial or bulk transfers.

      IDrive Pricing

      IDrive Business starts at $69.65 for the first year (regular price $99.50 per year) for 250 GB of storage with unlimited users and multiple computers, servers, Exchange, SQL, and NAS devices.

      The Business plan scales from 250 GB to 5 TB, with the 5 TB tier priced at $1,049.65 for the first year (regular price $1,499.50 per year). 

      Server backup is also available as an add-on for $5 per month per server, and Google Workspace Backup costs $20/seat/year with 10 TB storage per seat.

      IDrive Pricing

      IDrive Pros & Cons

      ✅ Single account backs up multiple computers, servers, and mobile devices for centralized data protection.

      ✅ Zero downtime server backup supports critical databases, including MS SQL, Exchange, VMware, and Oracle.

      ✅ Private encryption key option and compliance assistance for HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, and SEC & FINRA regulations.

      ❌ Storage-based pricing means costs increase as your infrastructure grows, unlike ControlMonkey’s asset-based model.

      ❌ No infrastructure-as-code conversion or one-click rollback capability for restoring complete cloud environments.

      Cloud Backup Solution #4: CrashPlan

      CrashPlan Cloud Backup Solution

      CrashPlan is a reasonable cloud backup option for businesses looking for continuous endpoint and server data protection with frequent backup intervals.

      The solution focuses on automated file backup across endpoints, servers, and SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with minimal system resources. 

      CrashPlan Features

      CrashPlan Data Resilience Platform
      • Automatically backs up files every 15 minutes by default, monitoring every change made in listed applications to ensure minimal data loss during incidents.
      • Backs up data across endpoints, servers, and SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with backup infrastructure hosted in the CrashPlan cloud.
      • Role-based access controls: The platform personalizes access controls and restores options for your users and departments based on job titles.

      CrashPlan Pricing

      CrashPlan’s pricing is custom, so you’d have to contact their team to get a quote.

      CrashPlan Pros & Cons

      ✅ Continuous backup every 15 minutes.

      ✅ There’s no need for users to be on a VPN to perform backups when they’re not in the office.

      ✅ The platform uses minimal system resources and runs in the background.

      ❌ Focuses on file and application data backup without protecting infrastructure configurations like networks, IAM, or DNS.

      ❌ No IaC capabilities or visibility into which cloud resources are protected and ready for disaster recovery.

      Cloud Backup Solution #5: Commvault

      Commvault Cloud Backup Solution

      Commvault is a reasonable cloud backup option for enterprises looking for comprehensive data protection across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

      The platform focuses on protecting mission-critical data with ransomware defense through immutable storage and cleanroom recovery capabilities for testing cyber recovery plans.

      Commvault Features

      Commvault Features
      • Supports a wide array of cloud and on-premises workloads, including virtual machines, containers, databases, applications, endpoints, and files across any environment.
      • Defends against ransomware and zero-day threats with shielded backup infrastructure and locked data storage that prevents deletion, encryption, or modification of backup data.
      • Provides a secure, isolated, on-demand cloud environment for testing and validating cyber recovery plans, enabling fast, clean, and secure recoveries from cyberattacks.

      Commvault Pricing

      Commvault’s pricing is based on usage costs; for example, in AWS, you’ll be charged $0.035 per instance per hour for up to 10000 instances and $0.021 per instance per hour for more than 100000 instances.

      Commvault Pros & Cons

      ✅ Your team will be able to discover, classify, and secure sensitive data with the tool’s AI-powered risk analysis capabilities.

      ✅ Mitigate ransomware risk and quickly recover from cyberattacks.

      ✅ Stay ahead of threats using FIPS 140-3 certified encryption.

      ❌ Commvault doesn’t inherently capture, version, or regenerate full cloud infrastructure state.

      ❌ For cloud disaster recovery, rebuilding or reconciling environment configurations would need external IaC tools or manual scripting.

      Cloud Backup Solution #6: Carbonite

      Carbonite Cloud Backup Solution

      Carbonite is a file-and server-focused cloud backup service that provides always-on encrypted backups, instant file recovery, and ransomware recovery assistance.

      The platform is a nice option for businesses that need reliable file- and image-level protection.

      Carbonite Features

      Carbonite Features
      • Always-on backups that protect documents, photos, music and videos, with data encrypted in transit and at rest.
      • Recover files instantly from the cloud dashboard, as critical documents remain accessible even after deletion, corruption, or device loss.
      • You can restore backed-up data at any time, and its support team can assist with restoring the pre-infected versions of your files within 2 weeks.

      Carbonite Pricing

      Carbonite has 3 paid plans that you can choose from:

      • Core: $24/month for 250 GB of automatic, encrypted cloud backup storage, which includes Windows 7+ or OS X 10.10+ support, up to 25 computers, external drives and NAS, and the ability to recover data instantly.
      • Power: $50/month for 500 GB of automatic, encrypted cloud backup storage, which adds Windows server 2008+ support, Cloud and onsite server backup targets, and backup system files.
      • Ultimate: $83.33 month for 500 GB of automatic, encrypted cloud backup storage, which adds unlimited servers + 25 computers.

      On the 3 plans, you’ll be able to purchase additional storage that costs $99 per 100 GB increment.

      Carbonite Pricing

      Carbonite Pros & Cons

      ✅ Simple file- and image-level backups with always-on protection and one-click restores.

      ✅ The ability to restore pre-infected versions within a 2-week window and hands-on support for restores.

      ✅ You’ll be able to access backup sets via a web-based dashboard on any device.

      ❌ Carbonite protects files and system images but does not capture cloud configuration state.

      ❌ Full cloud environments after configuration failures will require manual rebuilds or separate tools.

      Cloud Backup Solution #7: Druva

      Druva is a cloud-native backup and recovery platform built specifically for protecting public cloud workloads with SaaS simplicity.

      The platform simplifies the management of backup data in the public cloud with the goal of reducing data protection expenses, guaranteeing security through cloud-native backup and recovery designed for Azure and AWS environments.

      Druva Features

      Druva Features
      • Unified public cloud backup that protects AWS (including EC2, RDS) and Azure VMs.
      • You’ll also be able to lower TCO costs compared to native snapshots with the tool’s global deduplication and compression of data.
      • Restore backups to a new cloud account if the production account is compromised.

      Druva Pricing

      According to 3rd-party data from Vendr, including 22 purchases they’ve handled for Druva, the median platform cost is $41,634/year, with buyers paying up to $118,519/year.

      Druva Pricing

      Druva Pros & Cons

      ✅ Strong ransomware protection with its immutable, air-gapped snapshots.

      ✅ Cross-account recovery capabilities.

      ✅ Unified management across AWS and Azure to reduce tooling sprawl and improve visibility.

      ❌ Druva focuses on backing up cloud workloads and data rather than version-controlling cloud configurations.

      ❌ The platform is more expensive when compared to other alternatives on the market.

      Cloud Backup Solution #8: Veeam Cloud Backup

      Veeam Cloud Backup provides secure and scalable data protection for cloud-native (e.g., AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) and hybrid workloads. 

      The platform offers ransomware protection through immutable storage, rapid restoration, and automated policy management.

      Veeam Cloud Backup Features

      Veeam Cloud Backup Features
      • AWS-native backup and disaster recovery that’s fully automated.
      • You’ll be able to overcome ransomware and security threats with the platform’s assured clean recovery from encrypted, air-gapped and immutable backups.
      • Send server and workstation backups directly to the cloud for cost optimization and managed BaaS.n environment.

      Veeam Cloud Backup Pricing

      Veeam’s pricing is custom, so you’ll have to contact their team to get a product demo and a quote.

      Veeam Cloud Backup Pros & Cons

      ✅ A variety of recovery options, such as full VM recovery, instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and application-item recovery.

      ✅ You can plan and manage consumption to avoid cloud overspend, making it one of the best BDR solutions on the market.

      ✅ Supports a “3-2-1” backup rule, which ensures data is accessible off-site for disaster recovery.

      ❌ Provisioning or reconfiguring cloud infrastructure (e.g., rebuilding networks and DNS routing) typically requires external IaC tooling.

      ❌ Veeam doesn’t version or manage full cloud infrastructure configurations (network, IAM, routing, VPC, etc.) as code.

      Cloud Backup Solution #9: Wasabi

      Wasabi is a cloud backup storage platform designed to deliver fast, secure, and highly predictable backup and recovery.

      The platform aims to eliminate common cloud cost pitfalls like egress and API fees, which makes it an attractive option for ransomware protection and frequent recovery testing.

      Wasabi Features

      Wasabi Features
      • Wasabi’s Object Lock makes it impossible for anyone to access, alter, or delete your team’s data that is stored in the Wasabi cloud.
      • Delivers speeds comparable to AWS S3 Standard while being priced closer to colder storage tiers.
      • The platform also doesn’t charge for egress or API calls, so you’ll never be penalized for testing or restoring your backups.

      Wasabi Pricing

      Wasabi’s pricing starts at $6.99/month/TB for its pay-as-you-go model with no fees for egress or API requests.
      You can also sign up for Wasabi’s Reserved Capacity Storage plan, which you can purchase in 1, 3, or 5-year increments with premium support and greater discounts for term and capacity.

      Wasabi Pricing

      Wasabi Pros & Cons

      ✅ Backing up to Wasabi can be a good way to prevent both data loss and spiraling cloud costs.

      ✅ Data backup and disaster recovery services that offer predictable pricing with zero egress or API fees.

      ✅ Built-in immutability and virtual air-gapping.

      ❌ Wasabi is a storage layer rather than an infrastructure-aware DR solution.

      ❌ The platform cannot version, audit, or one-click restore cloud configurations like IAM, networking, or DNS after misconfigurations.

      Cloud Backup Solution #10: Acronis Cyber Protect

      Acronis Cyber Protect

      Acronis Cyber Protect is an integrated cyber resilience platform that combines backup, disaster recovery, endpoint security, and management into a single solution.

      The platform can help you minimize downtime, prevent cyber threats, and recover data and systems across physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile environments.

      Acronis Cyber Protect Features

      Acronis Cyber Protect Features
      • A single platform that natively combines backup, disaster recovery, AI-powered endpoint security, and endpoint management under one policy and agent.
      • Supports full-image and file-level backups with flexible storage options to fit on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.
      • Protects backup data from ransomware and malicious deletion with built-in immutability.

      Acronis Cyber Protect Pricing

      Acronis has 3 licenses that you can choose from for cloud backup:

      • Acronis Cyber Protect Standard, which starts from $85/year, gives you complete data protection and cybersecurity.
      • Acronis Cyber Protect Backup Advanced, which starts from $109/year and adds advanced data protection.

      Acronis Cyber Protect Advanced, which starts at $129/year and includes advanced data protection and cybersecurity for large IT environments.

      Acronis Cyber Protect Pricing

      Acronis Cyber Protect Pros & Cons

      ✅ Reduces tool sprawl by combining backup, DR, security, and endpoint management.

      ✅ Strong ransomware protection with immutable backups.

      ✅ Fast recovery and continuous data protection.

      ❌ Acronis focuses on protecting data and systems rather than version-controlling cloud infrastructure configurations as IaC, which limits its ability to instantly roll back IAM, networking, or policy misconfigurations across cloud environments.

      ❌ During a disaster, the platform focuses on data and application recovery rather than infrastructure configuration.

      Enable your cloud infrastructure to withstand failures and recover quickly with ControlMonkey

      Most backup and disaster recovery solutions are built on a misconception: Backing up your data is enough
      In reality, modern outages don’t bring companies down because files disappear:  they do it because infrastructure becomes impossible to reconstruct under pressure.

      When a CDN change takes production offline, when an IAM policy deletion locks teams out, when routing rules, or SaaS configs drift without anyone noticing, traditional backup tools go silent.

      They give you your data back and leave you staring at a broken cloud, forcing your technical team to rebuild critical infrastructure from memory, Slack threads, and outdated runbooks. 

      That’s not backup disaster recovery. That’s hope.

      We built ControlMonkey because this gap with the existing disaster recovery software solutions is real, costly, and growing.

      By treating cloud infrastructure configurations as the asset that actually needs protection, ControlMonkey flips disaster recovery on its head. 

      Every network rule, identity permission, DNS record, policy, and third-party configuration is continuously captured, versioned, and stored as deployable Terraform code.

      Not as screenshots. Not as documentation. But as ready-to-restore infrastructure.

      This eliminates the two failures that define most outages:

      • Uncertainty: Not knowing what changed or what the last working state was.
      • Delay: Not being able to restore fast enough to prevent a real business impact.

      With ControlMonkey, those risks disappear. Every environment becomes a time machine. Rollbacks are one click. Dependencies are handled automatically.

      Recovery is precise, auditable, and fast, regardless of whether you’re restoring a single IAM policy or an entire multi-cloud environment across AWS, Azure, GCP, and critical SaaS platforms.

      That’s why enterprises don’t use ControlMonkey as “another backup tool.” They use it as a safety net for their cloud itself.

      ControlMonkey is the best cloud backup solution because it protects the only thing that truly matters during a disaster: the ability to operate.

      When everything breaks, ControlMonkey doesn’t give your IT team work. It gives you outcomes:

      • One click to restore infrastructure.
      • Automatic dependency handling.
      • Zero guesswork.
      • Zero firefighting.
      • Zero reconstruction from scratch.
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        Rubrik vs. Commvault: Who Actually Wins on Value For Money? [2026]

        Ori Yemini

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        Rubrik vs. Commvault: Who Actually Wins on Value For Money? [2026]

        Rubrik looks like the obvious choice until you realize it doesn’t touch your mainframes or half your legacy stack. 

        So you lean toward Commvault for the breadth, and now your team’s fighting dual consoles and a deployment timeline that keeps slipping. 

        Your Commvault evangelist friend told you that you can streamline Commvault but warned you that you’ll have to invest heavily in architecture and expertise.

        Back and forth you go, comparing both. 

        And the whole time, neither platform is answering the question that actually keeps infrastructure teams up at night after a disaster: 

        Who’s responsible for getting the networking, identity policies, and cloud configurations back to a working state before any restored data even matters?

        This guide puts Rubrik and Commvault side by side on features, integrations, pricing, and what real customers are saying about both platforms in 2026. 

        I’ll also show you why pairing either data backup platform with an infrastructure configuration backup solution like ControlMonkey (that’s us!) closes the critical gap that neither one fully addresses on its own.

        TL;DR

        • Everything Rubrik does revolves around one bet: that security should be the foundation of data protection, not a feature bolted on later. Zero-trust architecture, immutable backups, an SLA policy engine that handles scheduling, retention and replication without you babysitting it.

        I’d go for Rubrik if ransomware protection is my top priority, I value a management experience that mostly runs itself, and I’m comfortable with its high price tag.

        • Almost nobody else in enterprise data protection covers as many workload types as Commvault. Over 250 at last count: on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Its Cloud Rewind feature goes beyond traditional backup by recovering cloud infrastructure configurations like VPCs, security groups, and load balancers.

        I’d go for Commvault if my environment is complex, I’ve got legacy workloads that other platforms can’t touch, and I want some infrastructure-level recovery without bolting on a separate tool.

        • ControlMonkey isn’t a replacement for either Rubrik or Commvault. It’s the missing layer. Both platforms protect your data. ControlMonkey protects what your data runs on: the VPCs, IAM policies, DNS records, security groups, and SaaS vendor settings that make your cloud environment actually function. 

        It captures daily Terraform-based snapshots of your entire cloud footprint, stores them in your own Git repository, and lets you restore any resource or environment with a single click.

        I’d go for Rubrik paired with ControlMonkey if I want strong data security and full infrastructure recoverability in the same DR strategy, so my enterprise could restore both my data and the environment it lives in after an incident.

        Rubrik vs. Commvault: Features

        RubrikCommvaultControlMonkey
        Core Data ProtectionSLA-driven policy engine with incremental-forever backups and Live Mount for near-instant VM recovery.Global deduplication saving up to 90% storage, Synthetic Recovery for clean restore points, and support for over 250 workload types.Protects infrastructure configuration with daily Terraform-based snapshots of your entire cloud state, stored in your own Git repository.
        Cloud Integration & Modern WorkloadsCloud-Native Protection for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud. Protects EC2, EBS, RDS, and now Okta, Azure DevOps, and GitHub.Covers 160 cloud regions and 200 cloud services. Cloud Rewind recovers infrastructure configs (VPCs, security groups, load balancers) for 105 AWS resource types.Backs up infrastructure configuration across AWS, Azure, GCP, and 30+ third-party platforms (e.g., Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta, Confluent, Temporal).
        Management & UsabilitySingle HTML5 console. SLA Domains automate backup policies with Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers. Minimal daily management.Dual interfaces: legacy Java console and newer HTML5 Command Center.A Cloud Resilience Dashboard that will give you a single pane of glass for DR readiness across all cloud accounts and third-party platforms.
        Security & Ransomware ProtectionZero-trust architecture with immutable Atlas file system, Cloud Vault (air-gapped storage), retention lock, and $10M ransomware warranty.Threatwise cyber deception with 500 lightweight sensors per appliance.Drift detection and auto-remediation that aims to catch unauthorized configuration changes in real-time. Our platform also prevents misconfigurations from becoming security incidents.
        Disaster Recovery (DR)Orchestrated failover with Live Mount and instant recovery. Strong for VM and database-level DR. However, it doesn’t have an infrastructure config backup.Orchestrated DR with recovery-as-code via Cloud Rewind. Generates CloudFormation and ARM templates to rebuild cloud environments. Some gaps in DNS automation and cross-account recovery.One-click infrastructure recovery to any previous known-good state. Our platform is capable of restoring VPCs, IAM, DNS, security groups, load balancers, and SaaS configs.
        Scalability & PerformanceScale-out appliance architecture. Adds capacity by adding nodes.Software-defined architecture decouples compute from storage.Scales across multi-cloud and multi-account environments.
        Ecosystem & Platform CoverageGrowing rapidly but narrower. Strong on VMware, Hyper-V, major databases, Microsoft 365, and expanding SaaS coverage.Physical servers, mainframes, Oracle, SAP HANA, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, endpoints, and SaaS apps.Covers cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and 30+ SaaS vendors, including Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta, Confluent, and Temporal.

        Rubrik’s Features

        Zero-Trust Data Security Architecture

        The security posture is what separates Rubrik from the rest of the pack.

        The platform’s proprietary Atlas file system is append-only and immutable by design, which means backup data can’t be modified, encrypted, or deleted by attackers or rogue insiders.

        Not a setting you flip on. Not a module you license separately. The immutability is structural.

        Then there’s Rubrik Cloud Vault: a fully managed, logically air-gapped backup repository in AWS and Azure.

        Rubrik Data Security Architecture

         Retention lock means nobody deletes backups before their retention window closes.

        Not your admins. Not anyone.

        The $10 million ransomware recovery warranty for Enterprise Edition customers backs that up with actual dollars, not just a slide deck.

        On the threat detection side, Rubrik holds its own.

        Anomaly detection powered by ML scans both on-prem and cloud backups looking for suspicious changes. Threat Hunting and its faster cousin, Turbo Threat Hunting, comb through backup data for known malware signatures before you hit restore.

        Rubrik Security Cloud

        The gap? Rubrik catches threats by looking at backup data after something has already happened. 

        It won’t spot an attacker doing recon across your live production environment.

        SLA-Driven Automation and Live Mount Recovery

        Most backup platforms require you to configure individual jobs for each workload. Rubrik flips this.

        You assign workloads to SLA Domains (Gold, Silver, Bronze, or custom), and Rubrik handles the rest: backup scheduling, retention, replication, and archival. Once it’s configured, you can largely walk away.

        Live Mount is where this gets interesting for disaster recovery. Instead of waiting for a full restore, Rubrik runs VMs directly from backup storage. 

        Within minutes, a VM is up and running, and you migrate it to production storage afterwards.

        SLA-Driven Automation and Live Mount Recovery

        The incremental-forever architecture also means Rubrik performs one full backup and then only tracks changed blocks going forward. 

        Short backup windows. Low storage consumption.

        Despite this, Rubrik’s SLA Domains cover data and application-level policies. They don’t extend to infrastructure configuration like VPC settings, IAM roles, or DNS records.

        Identity Recovery and Expanding SaaS Protection

        The platform now offers Identity Recovery for Active Directory Forest and Microsoft Entra ID so that you can restore entire identity environments without reintroducing malware.

        Rubrik also launched Okta Recovery with immutable backup support and DevOps Protection for Azure DevOps and GitHub repositories.

        Rubrik Identity Recovery

        If an attacker compromises your identity infrastructure (which is increasingly common in ransomware playbooks), being able to restore AD forests and Entra ID tenants to a clean state is a real differentiator.

        Rubrik also expanded to protect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, PostgreSQL databases, and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to broaden its cloud-native coverage.

        But here’s the thing that keeps coming up: Rubrik protects your data, your identities, and your SaaS application content. It doesn’t protect the cloud infrastructure that those things run on.

        With Rubrik, you’ll have your data protected. But how about infrastructure?

        Here’s a scenario that plays out more often than most teams want to admit.

        Your company runs production on AWS. 

        You’ve got 200 EC2 instances, 50 RDS databases, networking spread across 15 VPCs with dozens of subnets and security groups, 30 IAM roles with custom policies, Route 53 DNS configurations, Application Load Balancers, and EKS cluster settings.

        Ransomware hits. Or someone accidentally deletes a critical CloudFormation stack. Or a misconfiguration cascades. Or an entire AWS region goes down, and you need to failover to your secondary region.

        Rubrik restores your VM images, database snapshots, and file data. That part works.

        But before any of that restored data becomes functional, someone needs to rebuild every VPC, subnet, route table, security group, IAM role, DNS record, load balancer, and Kubernetes setting. 

        Manually. Under pressure. With the CEO asking why systems are still down. Microsoft Teams notifications blazing.

        Studies indicate that approximately 40% of cloud recovery efforts fail due to overlooked infrastructure gaps

        This is exactly the gap that ControlMonkey’s infrastructure disaster recovery fills.

        While Rubrik secures your data and workloads, ControlMonkey secures the cloud control plane: the networking, identity, DNS, CDN, security policies, and SaaS configurations that your data actually runs on.

        Here’s what ControlMonkey does that Rubrik doesn’t

        Daily Terraform-Based Infrastructure Snapshots

        ControlMonkey takes automated snapshots of your entire cloud configuration across AWS, Azure, GCP, and third-party vendors like Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta, Confluent, and Temporal. 

        These aren’t proprietary backups. They’re stored as Terraform code and state files in your own Git repository.

        ControlMonkey disaster recovery

        One-Click Recovery with Time Machine

        When a misconfiguration, accidental deletion, or region-level failure happens, your team can use ControlMonkey’s built-in Time Machine to browse any previous known-good state and restore with a single click.

        DR Readiness - Complete Visibility

        No scrambling. No manual scripting. No crossed fingers.

        This applies whether you’re rolling back a single IAM policy change, recovering from a Terraform mistake, or rebuilding an entire environment in a secondary region.

        Cloud Resilience Dashboard

        A real-time, executive-level view of your organization’s infrastructure readiness across cloud accounts and third-party platforms. 

        You can instantly see what’s covered by IaC, what isn’t, and what’s ready for recovery.

        Cloud Resilience Dashboard ControlMonkey

        ControlMonkey continuously validates DR readiness to provide automated compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and other frameworks.

        Drift Detection and Auto-Remediation

        ControlMonkey monitors your cloud environments for configuration drift in real time.

        Unlike data backup tools that don’t track infrastructure state, ControlMonkey detects unauthorized changes and automatically remediates them through Git-based pull requests. 

        This means misconfigurations get fixed before they become outages, and IAM or networking errors are caught before they cascade.

        Complete Cloud Inventory and Terraform Generation

        Our platform scans your cloud accounts to create a full inventory of all resources. It shows what’s managed by IaC and what isn’t.

        And it generates production-ready Terraform code for existing unmanaged resources, so you can bring your entire environment under version control.

        Complete Cloud Inventory

        Companies like Block (the fintech behind Cash App and Square), Intel, and Comcast rely on ControlMonkey to protect their infrastructure configuration.

        Block, a global fintech processing over $240 billion annually for 55 million users, achieved 100% DR-readiness and approximately 90% faster configuration recovery time after deploying ControlMonkey across their multi-cloud infrastructure.Check out the full case study: Block and ControlMonkey: Achieving 100% Cloud Resilience at Massive Scale.

        How Would ControlMonkey Work with Rubrik in Reality?

        Here’s a realistic disaster recovery sequence when you pair both platforms:

        • Step 1: The incident. A ransomware attack encrypts your production AWS environment. VMs, databases, networking, IAM policies, DNS records, and security groups are all compromised.
        • Step 2: Infrastructure recovery with ControlMonkey. Your team opens ControlMonkey’s Time Machine and selects the last known-good infrastructure snapshot from before the attack.
        Disaster Recovery ControlMonkey

        With one click, ControlMonkey generates and applies the Terraform code to rebuild your VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM roles, Route 53 DNS records, load balancers, CDN configurations, and SaaS settings.

        The infrastructure skeleton is back in minutes, not days.

        If you need to failover to a different AWS region or even a different cloud provider entirely, ControlMonkey’s multi-cloud coverage means the same one-click process works across environments.

        • Step 3: Data recovery with Rubrik. Once the infrastructure is restored, your team uses Rubrik’s immutable backups to restore clean VM images, database snapshots, and application data onto the rebuilt infrastructure.

        Rubrik’s Threat Hunting scans ensure the restored data is free of malware.

        • Step 4: Identity and access restoration. Rubrik’s Identity Recovery restores your AD Forest and Entra ID tenants to a clean state. 

        ControlMonkey restores your Okta configuration (groups, policies, assignments) that was backed up as Terraform code.

        • Step 5: Verification and go-live. ControlMonkey’s drift detection confirms the recovered environment matches the known-good state. Rubrik confirms data integrity. You’re live.

        Without ControlMonkey, Step 2 would have been days or weeks of manual infrastructure rebuilding, and your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) would have blown past every SLA you’ve committed to. That’s the difference.

        Rubrik answers the question: “Can I get my data back?”

        ControlMonkey answers the question: “Can I get my infrastructure back?”

        Together, they give you complete disaster recovery and an RTO measured in minutes instead of days.

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        Rubrik answers the question: "Can I get my data back?"

        ControlMonkey answers the question: “Can I get my infrastructure back?”

        Together, they give you complete disaster recovery and an RTO measured in minutes instead of days.

        Commvault’s Features

        Broad Workload Coverage

        Commvault protects more workload types than any other traditional backup platform.

        We’re talking about over 250 platforms: physical servers, VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle, SAP HANA, Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, endpoints, mainframes, and more.

        Commvault - Broad Workload Coverage

        And the Synthetic Recovery feature uses threat intelligence to piece together optimal recovery points from multiple backups to minimize data loss while ensuring no malware makes it into the restore.

        Commvault claimed some aggressive performance numbers at SHIFT 2025: 111 TB per hour for S3 protection, 84% faster backups, and 91% faster restores compared to previous generations.

        Cloud Rewind: Recovery-as-Code for Cloud Infrastructure

        Cloud Rewind is Commvault’s most distinctive capability and the feature that sets it apart from Rubrik in the infrastructure recovery conversation.

        Cloud Rewind connects to your cloud accounts, continuously discovers all resources and their dependencies, and backs up infrastructure configurations alongside data.

        For AWS alone, it supports over 105 resource types, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, network ACLs, load balancers, Lambda functions, and more.

        Commvault Resilience

        During recovery, Cloud Rewind generates native CloudFormation or Azure ARM templates to orchestrate point-in-time restoration of full application stacks, including all cloud constructs, metadata, and dependencies.

        But Cloud Rewind has documented limitations worth knowing about. 

        Route 53 DNS records aren’t automatically updated during recovery, and you’ll need to configure manual webhooks or Lambda functions to handle them. 

        Elastic IP association isn’t supported yet. Cross-account recovery is unavailable for several service types, including EFS, Lambda, DynamoDB, and SNS. 

        And it generates CloudFormation and ARM templates, not Terraform, which may not align with teams that have standardized on Terraform for their IaC workflows.

        Cloud Rewind is a real step forward for Commvault.

        However, it doesn’t cover third-party SaaS configurations (Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta), doesn’t provide drift detection or auto-remediation, and doesn’t store backups as Terraform code in your Git repository.

        Threatwise Cyber Deception

        Commvault’s approach to ransomware defense takes a fundamentally different path than Rubrik’s.

        While Rubrik focuses on detecting threats by scanning backup data after an attack, Commvault’s Threatwise deploys lightweight decoy assets across your production environment to catch attackers during the reconnaissance phase.

        Commvault Threatwise Cyber Deception

        Each Threatwise appliance can deploy over 500 threat sensors that mimic real network assets like servers, VMs, endpoints, and networking equipment. 

        These decoys require only IP addresses, with no additional hardware or licensing needed. 

        Since only an attacker performing lateral movement would interact with these decoys, Commvault claims zero false positives and coverage across over 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

        Commvault also offers Air Gap Protect with FedRAMP High certification and Cleanroom Recovery for isolated forensic testing.

        Integrations: Rubrik vs. Commvault

        Rubrik’s Integrations

        Rubrik integrates natively with the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 

        • On the hypervisor side, it covers VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
        • For databases, Rubrik supports SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and others.
        • On the SaaS side, Rubrik protects Microsoft 365 (Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams), Salesforce, and recently added Okta, Azure DevOps, and GitHub.
        • Security integrations include Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler. Rubrik also integrates with ServiceNow for IT operations.

        And with the Annapurna platform, Rubrik is pushing into AI integrations with Amazon Bedrock and Google Agentspace for secure AI data access.

        Commvault’s Integrations

        Commvault’s integration ecosystem is the broadest in the industry.

        • It covers AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud natively, spanning 160 cloud regions and over 200 cloud services.
        • Hypervisor support includes VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox VE 9, and Citrix. Database support extends to Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, and mainframe databases.
        • For SaaS, Commvault protects Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, and ServiceNow.
        • Security tool integrations are also deep: bidirectional connections with Splunk, Palo Alto XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, and Darktrace.
        Commvault's Integrations

        If sheer integration breadth matters to your team, Commvault has a clear lead over Rubrik.

        Pricing: Rubrik vs. Commvault

        Rubrik’s Pricing

        Rubrik doesn’t publish transparent pricing.

        The platform uses subscription-based licensing tied to data capacity and protected workloads. According to third-party data from Vendr, reported deals reach up to $601,917 per year, with $192,384/year on the low end: based on data from 3 purchases.

        Rubrik's Pricing

        But that’s just the software. 

        Rubrik’s appliance-based architecture means hardware costs stack on top. 

        The Rubrik R334 (3-node, 36TB) lists at approximately $100,000, while the R344 (4-node, 48TB) runs around $200,000.

        The Cloud-Native Protection for AWS and Azure doesn’t require appliances but still carries subscription costs based on protected capacity.

        Commvault’s Pricing

        Commvault’s pricing structure is more complex but potentially more flexible.

        As a software-defined platform, Commvault decouples compute from storage, so you’re not locked into buying bundled appliance nodes. 

        Microsoft 365 backup starts at $1.70 per user per month for the Standard tier and scales to $4.50 per user per month for Enterprise with Compliance features.

        Cloud Rewind uses usage-based pricing. On the AWS Marketplace, you’ll pay $0.035 per instance per hour for up to 10,000 instances, dropping to $0.021 per instance per hour for over 100,000 instances.

        The argument Commvault makes against Rubrik is that its software-only approach delivers lower TCO because customers can scale performance and storage independently, rather than buying pre-configured appliance nodes.

        What are customers saying about Rubrik and Commvault?

        TL;DR:

        • Rubrik’s reviews consistently praise its usability and security architecture, but some are not happy with its cost and under-documentation.
        • Commvault’s users are satisfied with its coverage breadth and storage efficiency, but some users were not happy with its deployment complexity.

        Rubrik Reviews

        G2 Rating: 4.6 out of 5 (based on 106 reviews).

        What users love:

        • The intuitive UI and minimal management overhead. Multiple reviewers highlight that backups can be configured with just a few clicks and that the SLA Domain model eliminates most daily administration.
        • How the policies are very flexible and can be tailored to any business’s needs.
        • Fast backup and recovery times without wrestling with overly complex setups.
        Rubrik Review

        ‘’What I like the most is how simple it makes the whole backup and recovery process. The platform is very clear, tasks are set up quickly, and it allows you to see the status of all backups in a very transparent way.’’ G2 Review

        Common complaints:

        • High cost and expensive renewals. This is the most frequent criticism across every review platform.
        • How some of the advanced features, like analytics and threat hunting, can feel under-documented or require deeper product knowledge.
        • Its limited support for opening some open source databases.
        Rubrik Review

        ‘’Rubrik can be pricey compared to alternatives. Licensing and subscriptions for enterprise features sometimes feel steep, especially for smaller environments.’’ G2 Review.

        Commvault Reviews

        G2 Rating: 4.3 out of 5 (based on 182 reviews).

        What users love:

        • Its strong balance between enterprise-grade capabilities and operational simplicity.
        • How reliable and easy it is to manage once set up.
        • The tool’s backup data copy encryption and compliance lock.

        ‘’Commvault Cloud offers a strong balance between enterprise-grade capabilities and operational simplicity. The platform is easy to use for daily backup and recovery operations, while still providing deep configuration options when required.’’G2 Review.

        Common complaints:

        • Complex deployment and steep learning curve. 
        • How advanced configurations and troubleshooting often require deeper product knowledge.
        • Upgrades and compatibility checks require careful planning to avoid operational impact

        ‘’Commvault Cloud is powerful, but it’s still complex to set up and manage.’’ G2 Review.

        Which platform should you choose for your data backup?

        Rubrik is the right choice if you:

        • Prioritize ransomware protection above all else and want an immutable-by-design architecture with a $10M recovery warranty.
        • Want the simplest management experience with SLA-driven automation that minimizes daily administration.
        • Need strong identity recovery for Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta environments.
        • Run a primarily cloud and VMware-based environment without heavy legacy workload requirements.

        Rubrik isn’t the best option if you:

        • Have a tight budget. Rubrik’s appliance costs and subscription pricing are premium, and renewals are expensive.
        • Run a highly heterogeneous environment with legacy workloads like mainframes, older databases, or physical servers that need backup coverage.
        • Need infrastructure configuration recovery after a cloud disaster. Rubrik doesn’t back up VPCs, IAM policies, DNS records, or networking configurations.

        Commvault is the right choice if you:

        • Need to protect the widest range of workloads from a single platform, including legacy on-prem, hybrid, and cloud-native environments.
        • Want some infrastructure-level recovery through Cloud Rewind, including VPC, security group, and load balancer restoration for AWS and Azure.
        • Value proactive security with Threatwise cyber deception that catches attackers during reconnaissance, before damage is done.
        • Prefer a software-defined architecture with flexible deployment options and potentially lower TCO than appliance-based solutions.

        Commvault isn’t the best option if you:

        • Want a simple, quick-to-deploy solution. Commvault’s learning curve and dual-interface situation frustrate many users.
        • Need Terraform-native infrastructure recovery. Cloud Rewind generates CloudFormation and ARM templates, not Terraform, and has gaps in DNS automation and cross-account recovery.
        • Need SaaS vendor configuration backup beyond cloud providers. Cloud Rewind doesn’t cover Datadog, Cloudflare, Okta, or other third-party platforms that modern infrastructure depends on.

        Data recovery is only half the equation: protect your cloud infrastructure with ControlMonkey

        Both Rubrik and Commvault protect your data. Neither fully protects the infrastructure that runs it.

        Outages don’t fail businesses because data is lost. They fail because infrastructure can’t be rebuilt fast enough, accurately enough, or completely enough.

        That’s the uncomfortable truth most disaster recovery strategies ignore.

        When DNS is broken, identities are misconfigured, routing rules are missing, SaaS policies are gone, and nobody knows what the last working state looked like, data backups become irrelevant. 

        You may still have your data, but you’ve lost the ability to operate.

        That gap is where ControlMonkey fits.

        ControlMonkey protects the thing that actually runs your business: your infrastructure configuration. 

        Every rule, permission, route, dependency, and integration that makes your cloud environment function is continuously captured, versioned, and recoverable.

        Not partially. Not manually. Not someday. Always.

        ControlMonkey is the right choice as a complement to your data backup platform if you:

        • Need to recover infrastructure configurations, not just data, after an outage or ransomware attack.
        • Want daily, automated backups of cloud and SaaS configurations stored as Terraform code in your own Git repository.
        • Care about drift remediation and want misconfigurations detected and fixed automatically before they become outages.
        • Need visibility into what’s actually running in your cloud, not just what’s in your backup vault. ControlMonkey scans your accounts, shows what’s managed by IaC, and generates Terraform code for unmanaged resources.
        • Want predictable pricing with a fixed plan. ControlMonkey starts at $800 per month, with no consumption-based surprises.
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          10 Best Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions In 2026

          Aharon Twizer

          Aharon Twizer

          CEO & Co-founder

          10 Best Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions In 2026

          Are you looking for the top cloud disaster recovery options in 2026 to safeguard your vital infrastructure, reduce downtime, and guarantee business continuity?

          In this article, I’ll cover the best cloud DR solutions in 2026 that can help you preserve your infrastructure, manage failover processes, and sustain resilient operations even during unforeseen outages.

          TL;DR

          • ControlMonkey’s automated infrastructure backup and one-click recovery technology make it the best cloud disaster recovery solution available.
          • ControlMonkey recovers DNS, CDN, identity, network, and SaaS configuration (not the data), whereas many vendors back up your data. Since many vendors only provide a partial solution, no other vendor in the market is able to complete this task from start to finish.
          • For teams seeking data-centric disaster recovery, automated failover, hybrid and multi-cloud support, or appliance-based recovery, platforms such as Acronis, Druva, Quorum, Cohesity, Zerto, and Veeam are excellent options.
          • AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Commvault, and Rubrik Cloud Value are good choices for cloud-native, pay-as-you-go, or server-replication-first strategies if you want quick virtual machine recovery, ransomware protection, or granular backup controls. However, complete infrastructure reconstruction may require external tools.

          What makes having a cloud backup recovery solution crucial?

          Cloud DR solutions safeguard not only your data but your entire infrastructure. 

          Without it, a single incorrectly configured IAM policy, erased DNS record, or network modification can result in expensive business disruption and hours of downtime, which translates to $$$.

           Disaster Recovery plan

          Traditional backup solutions do not protect vital infrastructure elements like VPCs, load balancers, and security policies.

          They only restore files and databases. 

          In the event of an incident or cyberattack, an effective infrastructure disaster recovery plan guarantees business continuity, upholds SLA compliance, and permits quick recovery.

          What factors to consider when evaluating cloud disaster recovery providers?

          #1: Integration with your existing infrastructure

          Your current cloud accounts, organizations, and regions must all work together seamlessly with your cloud disaster recovery solution. 

          For instance, ControlMonkey uses native cloud APIs and read-only access to find resources on AWS, Azure, GCP, and other platforms. 

          Inadequate integration will result in blind spots that expose vital infrastructure during recovery situations.

          #2: What is protected: data vs. infrastructure configuration

          Traditional backup solutions disregard infrastructure configuration and only safeguard databases and data files.

          The DNS, CDN, identity, network, and SaaS configurations that keep your services operational are restored by a platform such as ControlMonkey. 

          This implies that to guarantee true business continuity, you can recover entire environments rather than just data.

          If you don’t have a backup for your infrastructure, where will your data go?

          #3: Your target RTO and RPO

          The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) specify the acceptable amount of data loss and the speed of recovery. 

          Higher SLA compliance and less revenue loss during incidents result from faster recovery.

          #4: IaC coverage gaps and legacy resources

          Not everything lives in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), as many critical configurations exist outside IaC, which can create dangerous blind spots for traditional disaster recovery products.

          Your DR strategy fails when you need it most if these non-IaC and legacy resources are not covered.

          For example, third-party SaaS platforms like Datadog, Cloudflare, and others are among the managed and unmanaged resources that ControlMonkey finds.

          #5: Recovery testing and drills

          A disaster recovery plan that hasn’t been tested is just documentation, not protection. 

          Continuous validation ensures your recovery process works when cyberattacks or misconfigurations occur.

          DR readiness is a core concept here at ControlMonkey, and that’s why our platform gives you full transparency into DR readiness so that you can check recovery procedures even before accidents happen.

          #6: Multi-account & multi-region availability

          Today’s enterprise infrastructure is diverse and extensive in accounts and regions, and thus, your DR solution has to be capable of scaling likewise.

          If your DR solution doesn’t scale with your infrastructure, it becomes shelfware that fails during real emergencies.

          For example, ControlMonkey supports disaster recovery across all major cloud providers and handles complex multi-account architectures.

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          What are the 10 best cloud disaster recovery solutions in 2026?

          The best cloud disaster recovery solutions in 2026 are ControlMonkey, Acronis, and Druva.

          Here’s a breakdown of our shortlisted platforms:

          ToolFeaturesPricing
          #1: ControlMonkeyAutomated daily infrastructure snapshots across AWS, Azure, and GCP, one-click recovery, SaaS configuration backup, and real-time DR readiness dashboards.Custom pricing.
          #2: AcronisDisaster recovery orchestration with runbooks, backup-based replication to the cloud, and unified DRaaS management.Starts from $85/year.
          #3: DruvaOne-click failover for VMware/AWS, you can clone AWS environments, and perform failback recovery.The median reported cost is $41,634/year.
          #4: QuorumInstant VM/file recovery,  remote site replication, and automated daily recovery testing.Custom pricing.
          #5: Cohesity DataProtectAutomated failover and failback, hybrid and multi-cloud support, and immutable backups.The median reported cost is $24,937/year.
          #6: ZertoContinuous data protection, automated failover and failback, and MSP support.The median reported cost is $76,750/year.
          #7: VeeamContinuous replication and CDP, immutable cloud storage, network extension appliances, and automated failover plans.Custom pricing.
          #8: AWS Elastic Disaster RecoveryBlock-level continuous replication, one-click recovery drills, and launch recovery instances across regions.$0.028/server/hour.
          #9: Commvault Disaster RecoveryAutomated resource discovery, recovery-as-code, drift analysis, and cloud-native DR.Starts from $0.035/instance/hour (<10,000 instances) for AWS.
          #10: Rubrik Cloud ValueZero-trust backup, granular RBAC, continuous workload discovery, and ransomware recovery workflows.The median reported cost is $601,917/year.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution#1: ControlMonkey

          ControlMonkey offers the best cloud disaster recovery solution on the market because it delivers comprehensive infrastructure protection that traditional backup tools can’t match.

          While most vendors focus on data backup, ControlMonkey restores your entire infrastructure configuration, including DNS, CDN, identity, network, and SaaS platforms to ensure true business continuity when disasters strike.

          Table that shows all the 3rd party backup

          With many outages going on (Azure, AWS, Cloudflare), now more than ever, cloud infrastructure has become a priority for Cloud teams, CISOs and CIOs. 

          We’ve seen that organizations often discover too late that they don’t know what actually existed or that they had backups beyond their data.

          Let’s go over ControlMonkey’s cloud disaster recovery features to see why companies like Intel, AWS and Comcast can’t imagine their cloud without ControlMonkey:

          Automated Daily Cloud Backups

          ControlMonkey continuously takes snapshots of your entire infrastructure to help you eliminate manual backup processes that leave gaps in protection.

          ControlMonkey disaster recovery

          Continuously, ControlMonkey:

          • Captures exact infrastructure configuration across all cloud accounts and regions
          • Converts configuration into deployable infrastructure definitions that can be restored instantly
          • Commits each snapshot as a versioned record in your Git repository for complete audit trails

          Each snapshot represents a known-good point in time that you can roll back to with a single click.

          ControlMonkey Solutions

          Snapshots are stored securely in the customer’s Git repository, with backup frequency ranging from an hour to a day, depending on the customer’s configuration.

          Instant Cloud Infrastructure Recovery

          When incidents or cyber attacks occur, we know that speed determines whether you face minutes of disruption or days of downtime. 

          This is why ControlMonkey’s one-click recovery system eliminates the manual fixes that keep infrastructure teams in firefighting mode.

          Disaster Recovery ControlMonkey

          Recovery happens in three steps:

          • Your team can restore individual resources or full environments using ControlMonkey’s Time Machine capability to select any previous known-good state.
          • Recovery can be manual or automated, depending on severity: critical incidents trigger automatic rollbacks while routine fixes can be reviewed before deployment.
          • Dependencies and ordering are handled automatically to reduce human error and prevent cascading failures during restoration.

          This instant recovery capability can help you meet strict SLA targets and maintain business continuity during security incidents, misconfigurations, or accidental deletions.

          Disaster Recovery SaaS Configuration

          Your infrastructure extends far beyond cloud resources. 

          Routing rules, identity permissions, networking policies, SaaS configurations, and cloud resources change constantly, and many of these changes happen outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

          ControlMonkey solves the problem that traditional DR plans ignore: configuration drift in third-party platforms, which creates blind spots that leave your organization vulnerable. 

          While other platforms back up your cloud data, ControlMonkey protects configuration across 30+ SaaS vendors, including Datadog, Cloudflare, and more.

          What would you do if hundreds of your Datadog dashboards were deleted in a cyberattack? You’d have zero visibility into your production metrics for the next 2–3 weeks. 

          Think about how much money, effort, and time you’ve put into building your dashboards. Do you really want to start all over again?

          When a critical Datadog Dashboard gets deleted or a Cloudflare routing rule is misconfigured, ControlMonkey can restore these configurations instantly.

          Want to assess your current cloud resilience posture? Check out our Free Cloud Resilience Assessment Report to identify gaps in business continuity and recoverability from accidental resource deletion or cloud outages.

          Disaster recovery assessment report

          Complete Visibility Into DR Readiness 

          You can’t protect what you can’t see. 

          ControlMonkey connects using read-only access and native cloud APIs to discover every asset across your infrastructure footprint.

          DR Readiness - Complete Visibility

          Our platform provides real-time visibility into:

          • Cloud resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP with complete account and region coverage.
          • SaaS and third-party configurations, including identity, APM networking, and security platforms.
          • Resources managed and unmanaged by IaC, so you can identify coverage gaps before disasters strike.

          With zero manual effort, instantly see what’s covered by Infrastructure as Code, what isn’t, and what’s ready for the next disaster. 

          This complete visibility lets teams proactively protect every asset before it’s too late, eliminating the dangerous blind spots that cause extended outages.

          Audit Ready and BCP Compliance

          ControlMonkey ensures your infrastructure disaster recovery strategy aligns seamlessly with your business continuity plan and compliance requirements. 

          Our platform continuously validates DR readiness across the organization to provide automated compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and other frameworks.

          ControlMonkey Cloud Resilience Dashboard

          ControlMonkey provides managers and executives with a single pane of glass to continuously review cloud DR readiness through our Cloud Resilience Dashboard.

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          ControlMonkey delivers an end-to-end infrastructure disaster recovery solution that protects both cloud resources and SaaS configurations. Get automatic daily backups, instant recovery, and complete visibility, without writing custom scripts or maintaining complex DR processes.

          Leaders can track progress over time, identify gaps before incidents occur, and demonstrate compliance during audits without scrambling to gather documentation.

          This executive visibility transforms DR from a technical checkbox into a strategic capability that reduces business risk and ensures operational excellence.

          Mini Case Study: How Block achieved 100% cloud resilience with ControlMonkey

          Block, a global fintech leader processing over $240 billion annually for 55 million users, needed a disaster recovery solution that could protect thousands of multi-cloud accounts and hundreds of thousands of assets without slowing innovation. 

          Assaf, who leads platform engineering at Block, partnered with ControlMonkey to achieve daily automated backups across 100% of their multi-cloud infrastructure: something their team couldn’t build fast enough in-house. 

          ControlMonkey’s unified asset inventory, ability to generate daily backups for millions of cloud resources, and clear DR posture visibility immediately stood out. 

          Block significantly improved their RPO and RTO metrics while gaining complete visibility into coverage gaps between tools and the true state of their environment.

          What started as a disaster recovery project evolved into a broader initiative around visibility, governance, and operational confidence.

          "ControlMonkey helped us achieve the level of resilience we envisioned for our cloud infrastructure. At our scale, that’s anything but trivial. Doing this ourselves would have taken quarters of effort for just a fraction of the value we get from their platform."

          Assaf Warshitzky

          Assaf Warshitzky

          VP Platform Engineering

          Check out our video case study to learn more about what happened:

          Pricing

          ControlMonkey offers only 2 pricing plans:

          • Startup: $800 for up to 10 users, up to 5,000 cloud assets, up to 500 deployments/month, and access to our Terraform code generator, Terraform CI/CD, policy enforcement, drift detection and remediation capabilities, self-service dashboard, RBAC, and self-hosted agent.
          • Enterprise: Custom pricing for unlimited cloud assets, users, and deployments, and adds specialized support.
          ControlMonkey pricing

          Pros & Cons

          ✅ Cloud configuration backup across AWS, Azure, and GCP with automated snapshots.

          ✅ SaaS configuration backup from Datadog, Cloudflare, F5, Okta, and 30+ more platforms.

          ✅ Full visibility into DR readiness with real-time dashboards and IaC coverage mapping.

          ✅ Automated daily snapshots and one-click recovery minimize both RTO and RPO.

          ✅ Audit-ready compliance with continuous validation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.

          ✅ 24/7 VIP support over Microsoft Teams, Slack, email, and ticketing.

          ❌ Does not cover data backup, as ControlMonkey focuses on infrastructure configuration, not files or databases.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #2: Acronis

          Acronis is one of the best disaster recovery solutions with its integrated platform that combines backup capabilities with automated failover orchestration.

          The solution focuses on rapid recovery through backup-based replication rather than traditional replication infrastructure.

          Acronis Features

          Acronis Features
          • Disaster recovery orchestration with runbooks: Automates recovery workflows to restore systems in the correct sequence while handling application dependencies during failover.
          • Backup-based replication to cloud: Replicates production workloads from existing backups and enables instant failover to cloud-hosted virtual machines within minutes of an outage.
          • Unified DRaaS management: Single interface manages backup, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity without requiring separate platforms or vendors.

          Acronis Pricing

          Acronis Pricing

          Acronis Pros & Cons

          ✅ A single-console approach eliminates the need for separate backup and DR vendors while integrating cybersecurity capabilities.

          ✅ Flexible cloud targets (Acronis, Azure, hybrid) let you optimize for cost, compliance, or performance per workload.

          ✅ Automated monthly test failovers and HIPAA compliance features (audit logs, MFA, encryption) suit regulated industries.

          ❌ Focuses on data and application recovery rather than infrastructure configuration.

          ❌ Backup-based replication model may result in slower infrastructure restoration compared to ControlMonkey’s one-click rollback.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #3: Druva

          Druva

          Druva offers a SaaS disaster recovery platform built on AWS infrastructure that eliminates the need for on-premises DR hardware.

          The solution delivers automated failover for VMware and AWS workloads and focuses on simplicity through 100% cloud-native architecture with RPOs of one hour and RTOs measured in minutes.

          Druva Features

          Druva Features
          • “One-click” recovery in the cloud: Enables simple failover of on-premises VMs to any AWS region globally with minimal manual steps.
          • Clone AWS environments for DR: Duplicates complete AWS workload stacks (EC2, RDS, dependencies) to alternate regions or accounts while preserving configurations.
          • Failback recovery: Returns recovered workloads to the original on-premises data centers or VMware Cloud on AWS after disaster resolution.

          Druva Pricing

          According to 3rd-party data from Vendr, including 22 purchases they’ve handled for Druva, the median platform cost is $41,634/year, with buyers paying up to $118,519/year.

          Druva Pricing

          Druva Pros & Cons

          ✅ 100% SaaS delivery eliminates DR hardware, software patching, and secondary site management overhead.

          ✅ FedRAMP-certified platform with built-in compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2).

          ✅ Native AWS integration across global regions with failback capabilities to on-premises or VMware Cloud on AWS.

          ❌ Backup-centric approach focuses on data and application recovery rather than infrastructure-as-code restoration.

          ❌ RPO targets of “a few hours” may not meet stringent requirements compared to ControlMonkey’s continuous drift detection and instant infrastructure state recovery.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #4: Quorum

          Quorum

          Quorum provides appliance-based disaster recovery through its onQ hardware platform that maintains ready-to-run virtual machine clones locally and replicates them to remote sites. 

          With 15+ years in business and zero ransomware infections since its inception in 2008, the solution focuses on one-click recovery with RTOs around 5 minutes.

          Quorum Features

          Quorum Features
          • Instant recovery of any server or file with just a few clicks.
          • Remote site replication: Synchronizes encrypted, compressed snapshots from local onQ appliances to remote DR sites at user-defined intervals (as frequent as every 15 minutes for RPO).
          • Automated daily recovery testing: Automatically boots every snapshot to verify recoverability.

          Quorum Pricing

          Quorum’s pricing is custom, so you’ll have to contact them to get a demo and a quote.

          Quorum Pros & Cons

          ✅ Turnkey appliances deploy in hours with no specialized knowledge required, using a simple web-based console for management.

          ✅ Hardware powerful enough to run production workloads during disasters with up to 8 million IOPs per appliance.

          ✅ Immutable backups on hardened Linux with zero ransomware infections plus isolated sandbox for pre-production testing.

          ❌ Requires purchasing and managing proprietary hardware appliances rather than using infrastructure-as-code approaches like ControlMonkey’s state management.

          ❌ Focuses on VM-level recovery of applications and data rather than cloud-native configuration restoration, meaning network policies, IAM roles, and infrastructure definitions must be manually reconfigured.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #5: Cohesity DataProtect

          Cohesity

          Cohesity DataProtect provides a modern, software-defined DR solution that enables fast, policy-based backups and automated failover/failback across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

          The platform eliminates siloed infrastructure through near-zero downtime and immutable backups, protecting against ransomware and site failures.

          Cohesity DataProtect Features

          Cohesity DataProtect Features
          • Automated orchestration: The platform helps with DR operations through automated workflows for failover and failback.
          • Hybrid & multi-cloud flexibility: Protects data across on-premises, edge, and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) from a single control plane.
          • Cyber resiliency: Immutable snapshots, air-gapped backups, and AI-driven threat analytics to ensure data can be recovered even after a ransomware attack.

          Cohesity DataProtect Pricing

          According to 3rd-party data from Vendr, the median buyer pays $24,937/year for Cohesity, with one buyer paying $191,748/year.

          Cohesity DataProtect Pricing

          Cohesity DataProtect Pros & Cons

          ✅ Unified, scalable cloud and on-prem disaster recovery.

          ✅ Fast restores and SLA support.

          ✅ Strong security and ransomware resilience.

          ❌ Cohesity focuses primarily on protecting data and workloads, not cloud infrastructure configurations.

          ❌ Manual control of DR infrastructure configs can lead to gaps because Cohesity doesn’t auto-generate and version infrastructure-as-code recovery scripts.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #6: Zerto

          Zerto

          Zerto Cloud Disaster Recovery offers continuous data protection (CDP) for virtualized environments for near-instant recovery from ransomware and outages with sub-second replication.

          The platform delivers automated, orchestrated failover/failback between on-premises, private clouds, and public clouds like AWS and Azure to help you reduce RTO to minutes and RPO to seconds.

          Zerto Features

          Zerto Features
          • Continuous Data Protection (CDP) that replicates data in real-time, allowing recovery from any point in time.
          • Enables non-disruptive, automated testing and failover of entire applications or data centers with minimal manual intervention.
          • Supports Microsoft Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, as well as over 350+ managed service providers (MSPs).

          Zerto Pricing

          According to 3rd party data from Vendr, the average buyer is paying $76,750/year for Zero, with $46,080/year on the low end, and $155,617/year on the high end.

          Zerto Pricing

          Zerto Pros & Cons

          ✅ Data is continuously replicated, so data loss is measured in seconds.

          ✅ Automated orchestration enables fast failover and failback.

          ✅ Protects workloads across different hypervisors, on-premises, and public clouds.

          ❌ Can be expensive to scale, with the median buyer paying $76,750/year.

          ❌ Limited infrastructure-as-code & config control relative to ControlMonkey-style automation.

          ❌ Without integrated IaC or infra versioning, recovery orchestration may require manual or separate scripting for cloud infra provisioning and rewiring.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #7: Veeam

          Veeam

          Veeam provides a suite for cloud disaster recovery (DR) designed to minimize downtime and prevent data loss through automated replication and failover to cloud environments.

          Veeam Features

          Veeam Features
          • Continuous data protection (CDP): The platform helps you achieve RPOs of seconds for mission-critical workloads.
          • Immutable cloud storage: Uses Veeam Data Cloud Vault to store air-gapped, tamper-proof backups, ensuring clean recovery after ransomware attacks.
          • Network extension appliances: Automatically “stretches” your Layer 2 network between your on-premises site and the cloud during failover to help you maintain IP connectivity without complex re-addressing.

          Veeam Pricing

          Veeam’s pricing is custom, so you’ll have to contact their team to get a product demo and a quote.

          Veeam Pros & Cons

          ✅ Automated failover plans and DR testing.

          ✅ Native integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) for replication and recovery.

          ✅ Supports image-based backups, continuous replication, and near-instant restores for VMs, physical servers, and cloud workloads.

          ❌ Provisioning or reconfiguring cloud infra (e.g., rebuilding networks, security policies, DNS routing) typically requires external IaC tooling or scripts.

          ❌ The platform doesn’t inherently version or manage full cloud infrastructure configurations (network, IAM, routing, VPC, etc.) as code.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #8: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is a cloud-based disaster recovery service for fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS. 

          The solution minimizes downtime and data loss by using continuous, block-level replication to a low-cost staging area.

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Features

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Features
          • AWS DRS maintains a 7-day history of snapshots by default, which can be critical for recovering from ransomware or data corruption, as you can “roll back” to a state before the incident occurred.
          • You can launch recovery instances in a different Availability Zone (AZ) or even a different AWS Region to ensure regional resilience
          • It’s possible to perform one-click recovery drills at any time without stopping replication or affecting your live production environment.

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Pricing

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery’s pricing is based on an hourly rate per source server and costs $0.028/server/hour.

          AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Pros & Cons

          ✅ Allows you to recover servers from a previous state to mitigate issues like ransomware or human error.

          ✅ IT disaster recovery services that support an RPO of seconds and an RTO of minutes.

          ✅ You only pay for fully provisioned recovery instances during active drills or actual disasters.

          ❌ AWS DRS focuses on data and VM replication, but does not automatically version or restore broader AWS infrastructure configuration.

          ❌ Requires separate infra automation tooling for full DR automation.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #9: Commvault Disaster Recovery

          Commvault Cloud Rewind is a cloud-native disaster recovery (DR) and cyber-resiliency solution designed to automate the restoration of entire cloud application environments, including their data, configurations, and infrastructure.

          Commvault Disaster Recovery Features

          Commvault Disaster Recovery Features
          • Automated resource discovery and mapping: It continuously inventories cloud environments to help you identify all resources and their complex dependencies.
          • Recovery-as-code: The platform automatically generates the code necessary to rebuild entire cloud environments.

          Drift analysis: It identifies changes or “drifts” between point-in-time configurations to help you spot potential unauthorized changes that might indicate a cyberattack.

          Commvault Disaster Recovery Pricing

          Commvault’s pricing is based on usage costs; for example, in AWS, you’ll be charged $0.035 per instance per hour for up to 10000 instances and $0.021 per instance per hour for more than 100000 instances.

          Commvault Disaster Recovery Pros & Cons

          ✅ Cloud disaster recovery software that replaces days of manual rebuilding with automated recovery in minutes.

          ✅ Recovering from ransomware by identifying a clean restore point.

          ✅ You can create sandboxed clones of live environments to safely test software updates or configuration changes.

          ❌ While strong on data and workload protection, Commvault doesn’t inherently capture, version, or regenerate full cloud infrastructure state.

          ❌ For cloud DR, rebuilding or reconciling environment configurations often needs external IaC tools or manual scripting.

          Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution #10: Rubrik Cloud Value

          Rubrik Cloud Value

          Rubrik Secure Vault is a cyber recovery and cloud disaster recovery solution designed to help you restore clean, trusted, and uncompromised data after ransomware or destructive attacks.

          The platform treats backups as a security boundary, using zero-trust principles, immutability, and air-gapped storage to make recovery points resilient even when attackers directly target backup systems.

          Rubrik Cloud Value Features

          Rubrik Cloud Value Features
          • Rubrik Secure Vault applies immutability on first backup, retention locks, encryption, and logical air gaps so recovery data cannot be modified, deleted, or encrypted by attackers.
          • Granular RBAC, access isolation, and audit trails that can help you ensure only explicitly authorized identities can access or initiate recovery operations.
          • Rubrik continuously discovers workloads and applies inherited security policies that define backup frequency, retention, archival, and replication.

          Rubrik Cloud Value Pricing

          According to 3rd party data from Vendr, based on 3 purchases that they’ve handled for Rubrik, the median buyer pays $601,917/year, with the lowest one being $192,384/year.

          Rubrik Cloud Value Pricing

          Rubrik Cloud Value Pros & Cons

          ✅ Cloud DR services that guarantee clean recovery using immutable, air-gapped, zero-trust backup vaults.

          ✅ Strong ransomware-specific recovery workflows, including clean rooms and isolated recovery environments.

          ✅ Unique identity recovery coverage (Okta, AD, Entra ID) that most DR platforms completely ignore.

          ❌ Focuses on data and identity security more than full infrastructure-as-code recovery, so cloud environment reconstruction still relies on external IaC tools.

          ❌ Enterprise pricing and security scope may be excessive for teams that only need basic VM-level disaster recovery.

          Ensure fast and automated recovery before it’s too late with ControlMonkey

          Outages don’t fail businesses because data is lost. They fail because infrastructure cannot be rebuilt fast enough, accurately enough, or completely enough. 

          That’s the uncomfortable truth most disaster recovery strategies ignore. 

          When DNS is broken, identities are misconfigured, routing rules are missing, SaaS policies are gone, and nobody knows what the last working state looked like, data backups become irrelevant. 

          You may still have your data, but you’ve lost the ability to operate.

          This is where ControlMonkey fundamentally changes what “cloud disaster recovery” means.

          While the rest of the market is still trying to protect databases and storage volumes, ControlMonkey protects the thing that actually runs your business: your infrastructure configuration. 

          Every rule, permission, route, dependency, and integration that makes your cloud environment function is continuously captured, versioned, and recoverable. 

          Not partially. Not manually. Not someday. Always.

          ControlMonkey removes the two biggest risks in disaster recovery:

          • Uncertainty: Not knowing what existed or what was last working.
          • Slowness: Not being able to restore it before the business feels real damage.

          With automated (daily) snapshots, every environment becomes a living time machine. 

          You always have a known-good state. You always have a rollback point. And you never depend on fragile scripts, outdated runbooks, or tribal knowledge to rebuild your cloud from memory.

          When disaster strikes, ControlMonkey doesn’t give you tasks. It gives you outcomes:

          • One click to restore infrastructure.
          • Automatic dependency handling.
          • Zero guesswork.
          • Zero firefighting.
          • Zero reconstruction from scratch.

          ControlMonkey isn’t the best cloud disaster recovery solution because it backs up more data. It’s the best because it protects everything that makes the cloud work.

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          Aharon Twizer

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          Co-Founder and CEO of ControlMonkey. He has over 20 years of experience in software development. He was the CTO of Spot.io, which was bought by NetApp for more than $400 million. There, he led important tech innovations in cloud optimization and Kubernetes. He later joined AWS as a Principal Solutions Architect, helping global partners solve complex cloud challenges. In 2022, he started ControlMonkey to help DevOps teams discover, manage, and scale their cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code. Aharon loves creating tools that help engineering teams. These tools make it easier to manage the complexity of modern cloud environments.

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            Cloud Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Why It Matters

            Aharon Twizer

            Aharon Twizer

            CEO & Co-founder

            Cloud Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Why It Matters

            What Is Cloud Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?

            Cloud adoption is increasing at a rapid rate across all industries. Public cloud spend was more than $675 billion in 2024 with more enterprises moving larger workloads into the cloud – and for good reason.  As more enterprises adopt cloud at scale, ensuring cloud business continuity and disaster recovery becomes critical to maintaining uptime and trust, take for example 2025 – Azure an AWS outage.

            It is a proven business enabler and offers significant advantages over traditional architecture. As hardware gets older, data center operations become expensive. DevOps teams spend more time managing old systems than creating new solutions.

            But once you have migrated to the cloud, You need to keep your cloud running smoothly so daily operations stay on track.

            Outages, downtime—even for short periods—cost money, create operational headaches and damage customer relations. This is why a robust cloud business continuity and disaster recovery strategy is essential.

            Coupled with a strong DR plan, organizations can ensure cloud-based systems withstand and recover ‘quickly’ from any outages, misconfigurations, human error or cyber attacks.

            To remain resilient, companies need to ensure they are ready for every eventuality—not just for if something fails. They must have tried and tested DR plans for their cloud infrastructure.

            Downtime Isn’t Just a Technical Problem

            Every minute of disruption has cost, reputation and productivity implications:

            • Financial losses – For example lost revenue for an e-commerce platform, can be a disaster, even minutes of downtime can result in significant missed sales opportunities.
            • Customer dissatisfaction – Downtime can frustrate customers, especially if they rely heavily on the company’s services or products. Imagine not being able to access your network service from your iPhone. This not only damages trust, but can drive customers to competitors.
            • Loss of productivity – DevOps teams may be unable to work effectively if critical systems or tools are unavailable. Slow recovery times lead to a drop in productivity, missed SLAs and curtail innovation. Gartner reports that enterprises now dedicate 25% of their annual cloud spend to managing complexity and sprawl
              Reputational Damage – Regular incidents harm a business’s brand, affecting customer loyalty, trust and deterring prospective clients.
            • Operational Chaos – If systems go down unexpectedly, businesses might struggle with uncoordinated responses, delayed workflows and bottlenecks.
            • Increased Recovery Costs – Fixing the underlying issues and bringing systems back online can be costly, especially if emergency technical support is needed.

            DevOps teams can unintentionally deploy non-compliant infrastructure, especially for those businesses that operate in heavily regulated industries..

            This is why a Cloud Business Continuity Plan and DR plan are so important. Because it’s not just about restoring backups—it’s about restoring cloud infrastructure as quickly as possible. However most traditional DR strategies focus on data loss and don’t focus on cloud infrastructure. But manual processes leave gaps, cause cloud drift and increase risk.

            Cloud Disaster recovery planning is a subset of business continuity planning 

            Gaps in Cloud Resilience

            Cloud platforms provide built-in features such as redundancy and fault tolerance to ensure that systems remain operational, even in the face of hardware failures or network disruptions. However, these safeguards don’t address every aspect of operational security management.

            DevOps teams are still responsible and accountable for managing the organization’s data, maintaining accurate configurations, and handling change management processes effectively. They must maintain cloud versus code integrity and ensure that what is running in their cloud is mirrored in their code.

            But if they’re relying heavily on manual interventions – such as ClickOps – fixes will be slow and lead to inconsistencies, errors, and undocumented changes.

            Additionally, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) updates that are neglected or not properly tracked, can result in misconfigurations and cloud drift. Untracked resources—whether unused virtual machines, forgotten cloud allocations, or misconfigured network components—can further compound issues. These not only create gaps in security, performance but are costly to fix. This highlights the importance of real-time monitoring and remediation and infrastructure disaster recovery.

            The growing complexity of modern cloud environments makes them hard to manage. Google Cloud’s disaster recovery guide emphasizes the importance of planning for unexpected events to ensure business continuity.

            The next section will provide guidelines to strategies for designing robust Cloud DR plans highlighting the need to identify critical systems and the impact these have on the business if they are not available. It recommends testing and refining recovery processes regularly.

            Why Cloud Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Should Never Be an Afterthought

            Robust cloud business continuity and DR strategies are integral to cloud resilience. Teams must build them into infrastructure design from the start—not as an afterthought.

            DevOps teams must approach infrastructure with the same principles as modern software development—treating it as code that is meticulously versioned, well- governed, and easy to restore when needed. This requires a shift in mindset to:

            • Automatically track and fix unintended changes in infrastructure:
              • Leveraging monitoring tools like ControlMonkey to detect anomalies and initiate automatic corrections. By taking a snapshot of your cloud infrastructure, everyday, this enables DevOps to easily revert to any previous known good state.
            • Creating daily, restorable snapshots of your environment:
              • Frequent snapshots provide the ability to recover quickly from disruptions.
            • Using policies and guardrails to block risky code before it’s deployed:
              • Use automated checks to enforce compliance and block errors before they spread.
            • Making rollback a feature, not a panic button:
              • Designing rollback processes and features that allow teams to reverse changes swiftly without stress, ensuring instant recovery whenever they need it.

            How Block achieved Cloud Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

            Block, a global tech vendor, partnered with AWS and ControlMonkey to implement Infra DR. This gave them the ability to recover from cloud disasters —or even simple issues like accidental resource deletion.

            Block did not have consistent automation and tracking for its infrastructure. It also did not know the full extent of its cloud footprint or configurations. This meant that it had no guarantee that its infrastructure was completely covered and this meant that some of it might not be recoverable.

            There were resources created years ago that we couldn’t even trace,” said Ben Apprederisse, Platform Technical Lead at Block. “We didn’t know if they were in Git. We didn’t know what had changed—or who changed it. That’s not a good place to be when you’re talking about disaster recovery.”

            This isn’t unusual; most DR strategies overlook the critical setup that actually powers apps. That’s where Terraform steps in. It’s not just an automation tool – it’s a critical layer of your resilience strategy.

            By codifying infrastructure with Terraform, Block can now rebuild its environment from the ground up—not just restore data.

            If configurations break or resources are deleted, Block can instantly roll back to a known-good state.

            What ControlMonkey really gave us was first like a full backup.  And that is being basically, uh, granted with like matrices. So you could basically see the number of resources that you had and the number of resources that we backup.  it  give us like the infrastructure as code coverage report, which is probably most, the most interesting one for us. I can come to my boss basically and tell him that -hey, uh, 100% of the, of the cloud is now covered of the cloud is now covered. Of the cloud is now covered.

            Building Cloud Business Continuity and Cloud DR Readiness with ControlMonkey

            ControlMonkey helps companies embed cloud disaster recovery into their everyday operations.

            Instead of relying on manual checks or post-incident cleanup, it monitors infrastructure continuously, takes automated snapshots, and enables instant rollbacks—all while staying aligned with security and compliance policies.

            It reduces the burden on DevOps teams while increasing the safety net beneath them.

            The Best Time to Prepare Is Before You Need It

            It’s not a question of if but when – failing to prepare only makes recovery harder when something does happen. By taking a proactive approach to cloud business continuity and disaster recovery, teams can protect their uptime, maintain trust with stakeholders, and move faster with confidence.

            Whether you’re scaling up, managing hybrid environments, or standardizing across teams, the time to rethink your continuity plan is now. As AWS highlights, resilience isn’t a one-time project, it’s an ongoing practice.

            Ready to future-proof your infrastructure?

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            • 25.10.25 – AWS Outage update
            • 03.11.25 – Writer update, Linking update
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            Co-Founder and CEO of ControlMonkey. He has over 20 years of experience in software development. He was the CTO of Spot.io, which was bought by NetApp for more than $400 million. There, he led important tech innovations in cloud optimization and Kubernetes. He later joined AWS as a Principal Solutions Architect, helping global partners solve complex cloud challenges. In 2022, he started ControlMonkey to help DevOps teams discover, manage, and scale their cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code. Aharon loves creating tools that help engineering teams. These tools make it easier to manage the complexity of modern cloud environments.

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              FAQs on Cloud Resilience, Continuity, and Recovery

              Cloud business continuity ensures that your operations continue smoothly during disruptions, while infra disaster recovery focuses on restoring IT systems and data. Together, they form a comprehensive approach to surviving cloud failures, outages, or cyber incidents.

              Cloud platforms (AWS or Google) provide infrastructure redundancy, but they don’t protect internal configurations, IaC changes, or user errors.

              A dedicated cloud disaster recovery plan ensures you can recover quickly on your terms.

              ControlMonkey automates the recovery process by monitoring infrastructure, taking daily snapshots, and enabling instant rollbacks. This reduces manual effort and ensures your cloud business continuity and disaster recovery strategy is always active and compliant.

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