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Commvault Cloud Rewind
Rebuild the app, not just the data — infrastructure, config, dependencies and state, time-machined and recreated on demand across AWS, Azure and GCP.
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Commvault Cloud Rewind (from the 2024 Appranix acquisition) rebuilds entire cloud applications — not just their data: infrastructure, networking, configuration, dependencies AND state, discovered continuously and reassembled on demand in AWS, Azure or GCP. Traditional backup restores your database and leaves you rebuilding VPCs, load balancers, IAM and DNS from tribal memory; Cloud Rewind time-machines the whole application environment, turning region failures, account compromises and destructive misconfigurations into orchestrated rebuilds measured in hours. Data without its environment is half a recovery — this is the other half.
The Commvault platform family
This page covers Cloud Rewind. The rest of the eight-product portfolio:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Cloud Rewind — full cloud-application rebuild
- Heritage
- Appranix acquisition (2024) — cloud-resilience pioneer
- Vendor
- Commvault (est. 1996 · NASDAQ: CVLT · 15x Gartner MQ Leader)
- Scope
- Infrastructure + config + dependencies + data — the whole app
- Clouds
- AWS · Azure · Google Cloud
- Discovery
- Continuous, agentless mapping of cloud resources & relationships
- Rebuild
- Orchestrated recreation — same region, new region, new account
- Use cases
- Region outage · account compromise · destructive misconfig · DR drills
- Model
- SaaS — nothing to host; per protected application/resources
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand cloud rebuild before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is cloud application rebuild?
Recovery for the whole application, not just its data: the VPCs, IAM, load balancers, DNS, dependencies and configuration that make restored data mean something — discovered continuously, versioned like a time machine, recreated on demand.
Cloud Rewind (né Appranix) defined the category; the 2024 acquisition put it on the Commvault platform.
Data-only restore vs app-complete rebuild — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Backup + tribal-memory rebuild | App-complete rebuild (Cloud Rewind) |
|---|---|---|
| What backup returns | The data — into an environment that's gone | The application: infra + config + data |
| The VPC/IAM/DNS layer | Rebuilt from memory, over days | Recreated from the versioned graph |
| Dependencies | The wiki lies; archaeology begins | Discovered continuously, mapped live |
| Region failure | A slide titled 'DR strategy' | Cross-region rebuild, orchestrated |
| Account compromise | Restore into the blast radius | Clean-account recreation |
| Friday's bad apply | A weekend of unpicking | Environment rewind to 4:49 p.m. |
| DR testing | Too risky, so fictional | Non-disruptive drills, timed |
| IaC relationship | 'The Terraform is the backup' (it isn't) | Intent (IaC) audited by actuality (Rewind) |
Adoption starts with discovery — and the first dependency graph usually justifies the PoC by itself.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Discovery Engine
Agentless discovery walks your cloud accounts continuously — resources, configuration and the dependency graph between them, versioned like code.
Application Blueprints
Resources grouped into applications with their relationships — recovery thinks in apps, the way the business does, not in orphaned resource lists.
Time Machine
Point-in-time states of the whole environment — the VPC layout, the IAM bindings, the LB rules — selectable like backup points.
Rebuild Orchestrator
The application environment reassembled in order — network first, dependencies resolved, data attached — same region, new region or clean account.
Drill Fabric
Non-disruptive rebuild drills prove the recovery works and time it — cloud DR testing stops being a quarterly fiction.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Discover, rebuild, assure.
Cloud Rewind restores the half of recovery every backup forgets — the environment the data calls home.
Continuous Cloud Discovery
Accounts walked via APIs continuously — every resource, config and relationship mapped without an agent anywhere.
Dependency Mapping
The LB that fronts the ASG that mounts the volume that talks to the RDS — the graph nobody documented, discovered and versioned.
Application-Centric Grouping
Resources organised into the applications the business actually names — recovery scoped to 'the payments app', not forty resource IDs.
Environment Time Machine
Point-in-time states of infrastructure AND configuration — the environment as it was before the destructive change, selectable.
Whole-Application Recreation
Network, compute, IAM, dependencies and data reassembled in dependency order — the app returns, not a pile of restored parts.
Cross-Region Recovery
The region goes dark; the application rebuilds in another — the region-failure runbook as orchestration instead of heroics.
New-Account Rebuild
Account compromised? The application recreates in a clean account — the cloud equivalent of the cleanroom, for when the blast radius is the account itself.
Destructive-Change Rollback
The Terraform apply that deleted the wrong things, the console mistake at 5 p.m. Friday — the environment rewinds to before it happened.
Non-Disruptive DR Drills
Rebuild rehearsals into isolated environments on schedule — cloud DR testing with timings and evidence, not assumptions.
Measured Cloud RTOs
Drills produce real rebuild timings per application — the number the board wants, observed instead of estimated.
Configuration Drift Visibility
The environment's current state versus its history — drift that betrays trouble, visible before it becomes an incident.
One Vendor with the Data Layer
Clumio protects the data; Cloud Rewind rebuilds its home — the cloud estate's full recovery story from one platform.
Watch a whole application return
The official Cloud Rewind demo plus the platform’s cloud-recovery context.
How to Backup and Recover AWS Cloud Applications — Cloud Rewind Demo
A whole application rebuilt — infrastructure, config and data together.
Unified Cloud-Native Data Protection with Commvault Cloud
Where Cloud Rewind sits in the platform's cloud story.
Cloud Burst Recovery: Massive-Scale Recovery
Parallelised recovery engineering at cloud scale.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough on your own fleet?
Book a guided demo →Every backup restores the data. Then the real rebuild begins.
Here’s what genuinely sets Cloud Rewind apart from the alternatives.
It restores the half backup forgets
Your backup returns the database; who returns the VPC, the IAM bindings, the load balancer rules and the DNS? Until this category, the answer was 'the team, from memory, over days'.
The dependency graph nobody wrote down
Continuous discovery maps what the wiki never did — the actual relationships between resources — and versions it, so the rebuild follows the graph instead of archaeology.
IaC helps; this covers reality
Terraform describes what should exist — if discipline held, if state matches, if nobody clicked the console. Cloud Rewind versions what actually exists, drift and hotfixes included. The two are friends; only one is evidence.
The clean-account escape hatch
When the account itself is compromised, restoring 'in place' is restoring into the blast radius — new-account rebuild is the cloud cleanroom, and almost nothing else offers it.
Cloud DR testing becomes real
Non-disruptive drills rebuild the app in isolation and time it — the cloud DR plan graduates from architecture-diagram fiction to measured, evidenced capability.
Appranix engine, Commvault estate
The cloud-resilience pioneer's technology with the data layer (Clumio) and the platform (Commvault Cloud) beside it — the whole cloud recovery story, one vendor.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Cloud Rewind journey looks like
Cloud-app census
Applications, accounts, regions and the honest state of the environment runbooks — TechBag maps it free against your cloud bill.
Discovery live
Accounts connected, the dependency graph builds itself — the first artifact is a map of what actually exists (expect surprises).
The first rebuild drill
A scoped application rebuilt into isolation, timed — the measured RTO is the PoC's deliverable.
Rehearsed steady state
Drills on cadence, drift visible, region/account runbooks executable. TechBag manages the commercials.
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The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“A terraform destroy hit the wrong workspace at 4:50 on a Friday. Cloud Rewind rebuilt the environment — VPC, IAM, everything — by 8. The data restore was the easy part; this was the save.”
“Our region-failure drill used to be a slide. Now it's a timed rebuild into another region — 3 hours 40 for the core app, measured, with a report.”
“The discovery graph found dependencies our architecture diagram flatly denied. Recovery planning against reality instead of the wiki is worth the licence alone.”
“Account-compromise tabletop: rebuild into a clean account, repoint DNS, done. The security team's ending finally matches the ops team's capability.”
“We're heavy IaC and still bought it — Terraform describes intent; this captures actuality, drift and all. They audit each other beautifully.”
“Rebuild drills every month now — non-disruptive, evidenced. Our cloud DR posture went from aspiration to observation.”
“Scope note: it rebuilds cloud-native environments — the on-prem estate stays with the main platform. Together they cover us; alone neither would.”
“Post-acquisition, the Commvault console integration keeps deepening — buying the startup's tech with the platform's roadmap was the right call.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the cloud rebuild market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Cloud-Rebuild Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
App-complete rebuild across three clouds — the Appranix engine on the Commvault estate. This page's subject.
Environment Completeness × Ops Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — how much of the environment comes back vs what it costs to keep ready.
Environment-complete depth at SaaS lightness — the category's defining corner.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Cloud Rewind vs the ways teams face the rebuild
Replication DR, the IaC mirage and the data-layer platforms — honest lanes for each.
| Dimension | Cloud Rewind | AWS Elastic DR | Azure Site Recovery | IaC redeploy (DIY) | Rubrik (cloud) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | App-complete cloud rebuild | AWS replication DR | Azure replication DR | Your pipelines | Data-layer cloud modules |
| Rebuilds config & dependencies | The whole graph | Servers, mostly | VMs, mostly | If disciplined | Data-first |
| Multi-cloud | AWS + Azure + GCP | Into AWS only | Azure-centric | Wherever you code it | Broad |
| Clean-account rebuild | Native | No | No | Possible | Emerging |
| Drills & evidence | Non-disruptive, timed | Drills supported | Test failovers | A project each time | Platform reporting |
| Ops weight | SaaS, agentless | Replication agents | Azure machinery | All yours | SaaS-managed |
| Best fit | Cloud-first apps with stakes | AWS DR from on-prem | Azure VM estates | IaC-mature teams | Rubrik-platform buyers |
Which cloud-recovery path fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Cloud Rewind if…
- ✓Your application's environment is as critical as its data
- ✓Region-failure and account-compromise runbooks must be executable
- ✓Friday's bad apply should be a rewind, not a weekend
- ✓Cloud DR needs timings and evidence, not diagrams
Choose AWS Elastic DR if…
- ✓The need is replicating servers into AWS, narrowly
Choose Azure Site Recovery if…
- ✓Azure VM replication covers your actual exposure
Rely on IaC alone if…
- ✓Your discipline is perfect and nobody uses the console (audit that claim)
Choose Rubrik if…
- ✓The data layer is your anchor — hub this wave
What does the environment gap cost you?
Drag the sliders (count cloud applications; IT-hour cost as loaded engineer rate). Estimates assume ~12 hours per app per year across environment-runbook upkeep, drift archaeology and DR-test theatre, with ~70% absorbed by discovery, drills and rewind — the incident-day value (days of rebuild avoided) is the real number. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Cloud Rewind prices as SaaS by protected applications. TechBag models it — with the Clumio pairing — in one GST quote.
Discovery + drills
Best for proving the gap
- Agentless account connection
- The dependency graph as deliverable
- First timed rebuild drill
Resilience tier
Best for region/account risk
- Cross-region rebuild runbooks
- Clean-account recovery
- Monthly drill cadence
+ Clumio pairing
Best for complete cloud recovery
- Data + environment as one motion
- One vendor, one commercial
- TechBag architects the split
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every cloud-recovery vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Ask your backup plan: after the data restores, who rebuilds the VPC, IAM and DNS? Silence is the finding.
Compare the discovered dependency graph against your architecture diagram. Document the differences — those are risks.
PoC success = one application rebuilt into isolation with a stopwatch. Everything else is a demo.
Rehearse the compromised-account scenario: rebuild into a fresh account, repoint, validate.
Diff Rewind's captured state against your Terraform. The drift you find is what IaC-alone recovery would have lost.
If region failure is in your risk register, time the cross-region rebuild now — not during the outage.
Map which apps need Clumio (data) + Rewind (environment) together — the halves recover as one.
Cloud-native scope only — keep the on-prem estate on the main platform and let TechBag stitch the whole story.
Questions buyers ask
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Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.