ControlMonkey & AWS boost cloud recovery resilience

ControlMonkey has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services focused on cloud disaster recovery readiness and cyber resilience for AWS customers.

The collaboration aims to help organisations protect and restore cloud infrastructure configurations that traditional data backup tools do not cover.

This reflects a broader challenge in cloud operations: recovering data does not always restore a working environment. If authentication systems fail, domain name settings are incorrect, edge policies are missing, identity and access permissions break, or security teams lose visibility, systems may remain unusable even after data is recovered.

ControlMonkey's software is designed to capture and restore infrastructure states and software-as-a-service configurations across AWS environments. Under the arrangement, those tools will become more widely available to AWS customers and partners.

AWS already offers resilience tools through services including AWS Resilience Hub, Amazon Application Recovery Controller and AWS Backup. ControlMonkey's products are intended to complement those services by addressing configuration recovery and control-plane settings.

Recovery gap

The issue has become more pressing as cloud estates expand across multiple accounts and services, creating dependencies that can be difficult to reconstruct during an outage or after a cyber incident. Rebuilding those settings manually can leave engineering teams trying to recreate environments under pressure while services remain down.

Industry research cited by the companies, from Splunk and Oxford Economics, estimates that unplanned downtime costs Forbes Global 2000 companies about USD $600 billion a year. The same research puts the average cost of downtime at USD $15,000 a minute.

Against that backdrop, the collaboration is intended to help partners and customers continuously capture cloud configuration data, identify infrastructure drift and restore known-good environments through automated recovery workflows. This approach is designed for complex AWS estates with multiple accounts and operational dependencies.

ControlMonkey's platform provides continuous configuration discovery, versioned snapshots, drift detection and automated restoration. These functions are aimed at organisations seeking to standardise recovery procedures across large cloud environments.

The agreement also includes joint go-to-market activity and field collaboration between AWS and ControlMonkey, with the aim of expanding cloud resilience programmes. The work is intended to raise awareness of methods for operationalising recovery workflows through automated configuration capture and standardised restoration processes.

For AWS customers, the collaboration highlights a growing distinction between backing up data and restoring an operational cloud environment. In practice, the challenge for many organisations is not only recovering applications and records, but also restoring the settings and policies that allow systems to function securely.

ControlMonkey is a member of the AWS Partner Network, and the agreement marks a deeper commercial relationship with AWS around resilience and recovery planning. The company is positioning its tools as a way for cloud teams to restore trusted infrastructure states after outages, cyber attacks, drift events and operational failures.

Commenting on the agreement, Aharon Twizer, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of ControlMonkey, said the company sees disaster recovery and cyber resilience as an extension of day-to-day cloud management.

"ControlMonkey was built to give cloud teams control. With AWS, we're extending that vision into cloud disaster recovery and cyber resilience - so customers can move from reacting to outages and misconfigurations to recovering known-good environments quickly, consistently, and at enterprise scale," said Aharon Twizer, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of ControlMonkey.

AWS said the partnership builds on resilience services already available on its platform while adding a layer focused on infrastructure and control-plane configurations.

"Customers using AWS Resilience Hub, Amazon Application Recovery Controller, and AWS Backup have a strong foundation for application, infrastructure, and data resilience," said Ed Pozarycki, SA Director, Customer Resilience Engineering, Amazon Web Services. "Protecting infrastructure and control-plane configurations with tools like ControlMonkey's will further enhance resilience for production environments. We're very happy to help bring these options to more businesses with cloud infrastructure running on AWS."