Commvault has expanded its Cloud Rewind platform to cover more Microsoft Azure resources, as organisations face growing challenges in recovering cloud-native applications following cyberattacks and outages.
The company said the expanded capabilities are designed to help organisations restore not only application data, but also the cloud infrastructure, configurations and dependencies required to get applications operational again.
The announcement comes as recovery times remain a major concern for businesses. Research from Absolute Security’s 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience report found that 57% of enterprises said recovering from a cyberattack took more than 4.5 days on average.
Commvault said manually rebuilding cloud environments can be slow and error-prone, particularly as applications become increasingly dependent on interconnected cloud services.
Cloud Rewind continuously discovers cloud resources, maps application dependencies and orchestrates the recovery and rebuilding of cloud applications from within Commvault Cloud.
The latest expansion increases Azure protection threefold, with Cloud Rewind now covering 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types available in the market, according to Commvault.
Organisations can also conduct application recovery simulations before an incident occurs, including simulations in isolated and air-gapped environments.
“Modern applications depend on interconnected cloud services, infrastructure, and configurations that must be recovered together,” said Pranay Ahlawat, chief technology and AI officer at Commvault.
“Cloud Rewind helps organisations recover cloud applications through a unified experience in Commvault Cloud, increasing customers’ confidence in their ability to recover following a cyberattack or outage.”
Commvault has also integrated Cloud Rewind more deeply with its backup and recovery capabilities through Protection Groups. The feature brings application data and cloud configuration into a single recovery workflow, allowing organisations to plan and execute recovery without relying on multiple disconnected tools.
The company is also introducing policy-based protection designed to automatically enrol discovered resources according to tags, regions and resource types across multiple cloud environments.
Melinda Marks, senior research director and chief analyst at Omdia, said organisations can often discover gaps in their recovery strategies only after an incident has occurred.
“As applications and their associated cloud resources become more complex, organisations need an effective way to rapidly recover, with restoration capabilities across configurations, dependencies, and multiple cloud platforms,” Marks said.
Cloud Rewind is available as an add-on workload within Commvault Cloud for cloud application protection and app-centric recovery. The expanded Azure protection is expected to become available in the coming months, with pricing metered according to the number of protected cloud resources.
