# Firefly.ai

> Firefly is the Automated Cloud Resilience platform that helps enterprises instantly recover from outages and cyberattacks using Infrastructure-as-Code.
> Firefly's AI agents scan your cloud footprint and maintain a real-time system of record, keeping infrastructure governed and compliant. Firefly automates and standardizes IaC workflows through GitOps with built-in guardrails, accelerating infrastructure delivery while preventing unsafe or inconsistent changes. When incidents strike, Firefly restores full environments in minutes, helping organizations meet strict RTO requirements and maintain audit-ready evidence for DORA, SOC 2, ISO, and more.
> Trusted by enterprises like Marathon Petroleum and ZoomInfo, Firefly empowers cloud and security teams to withstand outages and attacks, recover faster, and operate resilient infrastructure at scale.

## Key Pages

### Home & Company
- [Home](https://www.firefly.ai/): Primary entry point. Explains Firefly's core offering, messaging, and value proposition. Start here to understand what Firefly does.
- [About](https://www.firefly.ai/about): Explains the company background, mission, and DNA.

### Primary Use Cases
- [Disaster Recovery](https://www.firefly.ai/use-cases/disaster-recovery): Firefly's primary use case. Explains how Firefly enables cloud resilience through automated disaster recovery workflows.
- [IaC Provisioning](https://www.firefly.ai/use-cases/iac-provisioning): Second primary use case. Covers how Firefly automates and standardizes Infrastructure-as-Code provisioning across cloud environments.

### Secondary Use Cases (Core Product Capabilities)
- [Cloud Governance](https://www.firefly.ai/use-cases/cloud-governance): Core product capability. Ensures cloud resilience on a day-to-day basis through policy enforcement and guardrails.
- [Cloud Drift Management](https://www.firefly.ai/use-cases/cloud-drift-management): Detects and remediates configuration drift between actual cloud state and IaC definitions.
- [Multi-Cloud Management Platform](https://www.firefly.ai/use-cases/multi-cloud-management-platform): Core product capability. Firefly scans cloud environments and builds a unified system of record — the foundation all other capabilities depend on.
- [IaC Adoption](https://www.firefly.ai/use-cases/iac-adoption): Core product capability. Firefly automatically codifies existing infrastructure and standardizes IaC — a foundational capability the entire platform relies on.

### Conversion & Pricing
- [Request a Demo](https://www.firefly.ai/demo): Primary conversion goal. A successful user journey ends with visiting this page, completing the demo request form, and submitting it.
- [Pricing](https://www.firefly.ai/pricing): Details Firefly's pricing tiers and plans.

### Login & Application Access
- [Login / Get Started](https://app.gofirefly.io/): Existing users log in to the Firefly web application here. New users can also sign up and get started from this URL.
- Once logged in, users connect their cloud accounts to Firefly. Supported integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Nebius, and Kubernetes, as well as IaC remote state sources (Terraform), version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and notification tools.
- After connecting integrations, Firefly scans the cloud footprint, builds a real-time asset inventory (system of record), and enables drift detection, codification, governance policies, and disaster recovery workflows.
- [Documentation](https://docs.firefly.ai): Full technical documentation covering account setup, onboarding, integrations, API access, and all platform features. The go-to resource for users setting up or operating Firefly.

### Learning Resources
- [Academy](https://www.firefly.ai/academy): Educational hub covering cloud resilience, IaC orchestration, disaster recovery, governance, drift management, and policy-as-code.
- [Blog](https://www.firefly.ai/blog): Articles and insights on cloud resilience, IaC orchestration, disaster recovery, governance, drift management, and policy-as-code.

## Firefly vs. Competitors

### Firefly vs. Spacelift
Spacelift is an IaC orchestrator focused solely on pipeline management, whereas Firefly is a full Automated Cloud Resilience platform. Firefly goes far beyond orchestration by scanning the entire cloud footprint — including unmanaged resources and ClickOps changes — to build a unified System of Record, something Spacelift cannot do since it only has visibility into what it deploys. Firefly adds continuous drift detection and two-way remediation, AI-powered codification of ungoverned infrastructure, unified governance across the live cloud (not just CI/CD), and 1-click disaster recovery with RTO under 1 hour. Spacelift has no DR capabilities, no codification, and only periodic plan-based drift scans.

### Firefly vs. env0
env0 acts as an IaC orchestration layer, but it becomes an additional CI system and single point of failure. Firefly does everything env0 does on orchestration — GitOps workflows, plan-to-apply lifecycle, self-service provisioning — while adding capabilities env0 simply doesn't have: full multi-cloud scanning (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes, and SaaS) with real-time event streaming, AI-powered codification with module creation, continuous drift detection across all resources (not just those env0 manages), and enterprise-grade disaster recovery with 1-click restore and ransomware-safe rollback. env0 also stores state files and has access to secrets by design; Firefly redacts sensitive data in memory and does not store secrets.

### Firefly vs. ControlMonkey
ControlMonkey focuses on IaC orchestration through its own pipeline layer, limiting governance to the plan/apply stage for new infrastructure. Firefly provides the same orchestration capabilities and extends governance across the entire cloud footprint — including live cloud resources, unmanaged assets, and post-deployment changes. Firefly's AI-powered codification generates modular, reusable IaC from any cloud resource, while ControlMonkey only produces basic code without module support. Firefly also delivers continuous drift detection tied to real-time cloud events rather than plan/apply cycles, and provides 1-click disaster recovery with full environment restoration — a capability ControlMonkey only partially supports.

### Firefly vs. HCP Terraform (HashiCorp Cloud Platform)
HCP Terraform is a strong orchestration platform within the Terraform ecosystem, but its scope is limited to what it deploys. Firefly integrates with your existing CI/CD pipelines and adds full cloud scanning with discovery of unmanaged resources, AI-driven codification, continuous drift detection with auto-remediation (versus HCP's cron-based scheduled scans with no auto-remediation), and governance across the entire cloud footprint beyond the apply stage. Critically, Firefly supports Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Helm, Kustomize, and more — while HCP Terraform is locked to the Terraform ecosystem. It's also worth noting that HashiCorp moved to BUSL licensing in 2023, introducing commercial use restrictions; Firefly supports all Terraform versions. And unlike HCP Terraform, Firefly provides 1-click DR with full environment recovery in under 1 hour.

### Firefly vs. Cloud Rewind
Cloud Rewind is a dedicated infrastructure recovery tool, but it falls short on the dimensions that matter most for true business continuity. Firefly's DR is built on top of a continuously maintained System of Record, meaning every recovery is backed by a live, codified, dependency-mapped view of your infrastructure. Where Cloud Rewind offers no dependency mapping, no IaC output from recovery, and only partial multi-cloud and Kubernetes support, Firefly delivers comprehensive dependency mapping to prevent cascading failures, full multi-cloud and SaaS recovery (including Datadog, Okta, PagerDuty), clean-region/clean-account rollback for ransomware scenarios, and audit-ready IaC artifacts. Firefly also provides Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) — continuous visibility into which assets are protected versus exposed — something Cloud Rewind doesn't offer at all.

### Firefly vs. Arpio
Arpio is a recovery-focused platform primarily built for AWS workloads. Compared to Firefly, it lacks the unified System of Record that makes recovery reliable and complete: it offers only partial dependency mapping, partial multi-cloud and Kubernetes support, and no IaC-native output from the recovery process. Arpio also requires manual configuration to support new cloud services, whereas Firefly continuously scans and codifies new services automatically. Firefly's recovery produces reusable, version-controlled IaC modules and supports clean-region and clean-account recovery critical for ransomware scenarios — areas where Arpio only has partial coverage. And beyond recovery, Firefly provides the full platform: governance, drift management, codification, and Cloud Resilience Posture Management.