Commvault Cloud Rewindis the result of Appranix acquisition in April, 16: Appranix is a cloud cyber resilience company and Commvault made this acquisition to help enterprises get up and running even faster after an outage or cyberattack. 

Cloud Rewind acts as an AWS time machine. This cloud-native offering lets organizations “rewind” to the last clean copy of their data, recover that data, and automate the cloud application rebuild process so that businesses can get back to normal in minutes versus hours, days, weeks, or months.

Today, when organisations are attacked, restoring the data is only half the battle. The truly laborious task is actually restoring the distributed cloud applications, which are used to run and power that data.

Cloud Rewind key values are: no installation, no agents, no maintenance, no SME, no scripting, no runbooks. Just One click multi-stack entire environment rebuild with dependencies and application data at a point-in-time in any region.

And the product region application stack in AWS (and not only) is quite complex:

Whitout Cloud Rewind it can takes 72 hours (4,320 mins) to recover an entire stack.
Using Cloud Rewind it takes less than 32 minutes with 82,000 lines of RaC for 3.985PiB recovery (4 tiers recover < 10 mins; one large RDS takes 30 mins).

Cloud Rewind introduces an advanced set of unique capabilities designed to help businesses bounce back from cyber incidents with exceptional speed and efficiency.

• Completely agentless: you can discover, protect, rewind, and recover entire application environments in minutes.  
• Reduce organisational risk with resource discovery: automatically identifies and catalogs all cloud components in use, offering full visibility into what assets need protection and recovery. So that nothing critical is missed in the recovery process, even in complex, multi-cloud environments.
• Reduce operational confusion and toil with app-centric dependency mapping: analyses and defines the intricate relationships between various cloud components. This feature accelerates the task of piecing these dependencies together after an incident, making the rebuild process much faster. So, when a system is restored, all connected resources and services are aligned, with little to no human involvement.
• Keep security teams in-sync with drift analysis: helps return restored systems to their correct state by identifying and correcting any deviations (or “drifts”) from the original configuration. This proactive capability keeps tabs so that restored systems are aligned with their secure and functional state after an incident.
• Automated cyber recovery testing with Recovery-as-Code: captures not only the data but also the full map of applications, infrastructure, and networking configurations. This means that systems can be restored with their complete operational blueprint intact, reducing guesswork for a thorough recovery.
• Avoid wasting cloud resources with on-demand cloud reconstruction: puts it all back together, helping customers swiftly rebuild both the data environment and its supporting infrastructure. This provides organisations with a secure and operational cloud environment, ready for immediate use following a disruption.
• Integrated application-centric cyber recovery and disaster recovery: Cloud Rewind integrates with Commvault Cloud data resilience capabilities to help organisations rapidly recover from short-term failures to debilitating cyber-attacks with a few clicks.

But more important is that Cloud Rewind can handle enterprise-scale multi-cloud environments: not only AWS (as the initial version) but also Azure, CGP, Kubernetes and SaaS.