Cloud Rewind for Cloud Native Applications an Overview with Commvault

In this session, Govind Rangaswamy presents Commvault Cloud Rewind, a solution designed to protect cloud-native workloads and enable recovery to a pre-disaster or pre-cyber attack state across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Cloud Rewind facilitates in-place recoveries or recoveries into different tenants and regions, offering business peace of mind and the ability to make an attack seem like it never happened. The presentation highlights the challenges of protecting cloud applications, emphasizing their dynamic, distributed nature, rapid change frequency, and significant scale compared to traditional applications. These factors lead to increased complexity in managing and protecting these environments.

Cloud Rewind tackles these challenges by offering a “cloud time machine” and a “Recovery Escort” feature. The tool addresses the limitations of traditional disaster recovery by capturing not only data but also configurations and dependencies. It uses continuous discovery to track configurations and dependencies. Recovery Escort automates the rebuilding of the entire application environment using infrastructure-as-code, simplifying the recovery process by combining multiple runbooks into a single, automated process. Cloud Rewind leverages native cloud services, such as AWS and Azure backup services, to ensure data management flexibility. This enables options for backups, replication, and recovery within the customer’s cloud environment.

The core benefit of Cloud Rewind, as showcased, is its ability to dramatically reduce recovery time, enabling rapid recovery and testing. Customers can perform comprehensive recovery tests with a few clicks, achieving recoveries in minutes instead of the days required by traditional methods. The tool offers extreme automation by allowing for rebuilding or recovering in a different availability zone, region, or account, which further enhances the service’s ability to deliver application resiliency. It also integrates with other Commvault solutions, promising a unified platform for managing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.