AI Adoption · Cloud Security · FinOps

Scale AI safely.
Control the spend.

IT-RAT is a boutique cloud consultancy for complex, high-stakes projects. We put AI to work across cloud platforms, FinOps practices and security: frontier AI and LLM workloads, identity and Zero Trust, cost governance. Then we keep that full-scale rollout secure, compliant and under control. Senior, hands-on architects taking on the hardest problems in modern cloud, security and AI.

AWS Community Builder Secure & governed AI FinOps for AI Zero Trust & IAM ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / NIST
AI, governed Zero Trust AI under control: cost, security and token governance dashboard AI under control Governed CLOUD + AI SPEND -30% this quarter SECURITY Zero Trust Least-privilege access, identity & models secured AI TOKENS cap

Fluent across the modern cloud, security & AI ecosystem

NVIDIA Apple Alphabet Microsoft Amazon Meta Cloudflare OpenAI Anthropic Stripe Datadog Snowflake HashiCorp Okta
The problem

Cloud got expensive and exposed at the same time.

Spend climbs faster than anyone forecast, AI workloads add a brand-new line item nobody owns, and every new service widens the attack surface. Most teams are firefighting both, without the architecture to fix the root cause.

01

The bill nobody can explain

Untagged resources, idle capacity, and AI/LLM usage with no cost ownership. Finance and engineering point at each other while the invoice grows.

02

Identity sprawl

Over-permissioned roles, standing access, and fragmented IAM across AWS, GCP, Okta and Auth0. One leaked key away from a very bad week.

03

Security bolted on too late

Audits become fire drills. Compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST) is documented, not enforced. Pipelines ship faster than guardrails can keep up.

What we do

Cloud security and FinOps, with AI through all of it.

We pair deep cloud-security architecture with hands-on FinOps governance, and we weave AI into every layer, so adopting it makes you faster without making you less safe, compliant or cost-efficient.

Cloud Security & IAM

Identity-first security architecture that holds up to real audits and real attackers.

  • Zero Trust & least-privilege access models
  • IAM design across AWS, GCP, Okta & Auth0
  • DevSecOps & secure CI/CD pipelines
  • Securing AI: LLM access, data & model guardrails
  • Threat modelling & reference architectures
  • Compliance: ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2, GDPR

FinOps & Cost Governance

Turn cloud spend into a managed, forecastable number that finance and engineering both trust.

  • Cost optimization: rightsizing, commitments, waste cuts
  • Tagging, allocation & chargeback that actually works
  • Anomaly detection & automated budget guardrails
  • FinOps for AI: LLM & token cost visibility and guardrails
  • Forecasting, dashboards & financial observability
  • Multi-cloud governance & GreenOps

Cloud & Platform Architecture

The foundation underneath both: scalable, resilient infrastructure built secure-by-default.

  • End-to-end AWS & GCP solution architecture
  • Kubernetes, GitOps & container platforms
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform / Terragrunt
  • AI & LLM workloads, RAG & ML data pipelines
  • Migration, replatforming & data pipelines
  • "Golden paths" for secure-by-default delivery

Advisory & Architecture Reviews

A senior, independent read on where your cloud stands, plus a roadmap to fix it.

  • Security & cost posture assessments
  • Multi-year cloud strategy & reference standards
  • Stakeholder alignment across eng, finance & security
  • Team enablement, mentoring & FinOps training
AI, under control

Full-scale AI adoption, kept under control.

We're putting AI to work across everything we do: cloud platforms, FinOps practices and security. The hard part isn't adopting AI, it's governing a full-scale rollout. We make AI secure, cost-controlled and compliant by design: from LLM APIs and token-based usage to cloud-native AI services and autonomous agents.

Adopt
AI embedded across cloud, data & workflows
Secure
Identity, data & model access locked down
Cost
Token usage attributed, budgeted & guardrailed
Govern
Policy & compliance enforced for every model
Capabilities

The stack we work in every day.

Cloud & Platform

AWSGCPKubernetes TerraformTerragruntDocker ArgoCDGitOpsIstio ServerlessKafkaGo

Security & Identity

IAMOktaAuth0 Zero TrustDevSecOpsSecure CI/CD Threat ModellingAPI Security

FinOps & Cost

FinOpsFinOps for AICost Optimization Tagging & AllocationForecasting Anomaly DetectionMulti-cloudGreenOps

AI & GenAI

LLM APIsGenAIRAG AI WorkloadsAWS BedrockVertex AI SageMakerMLOpsAI Governance

Governance & Compliance

ISO 27001 NIST SOC 2 GDPR
Who you work with

Senior architects. No hand-offs.

You work directly with the people who do this at enterprise scale every day, not a layer of account managers.

Yurii Kostiuk
Co-founder · Cloud Security & IAM

Yurii Kostiuk

Lead Security Architect, PETRONAS · ex-Cloud Native Architect, Okta

IAM solutions architect and cloud security consultant. Yurii defines enterprise-wide security strategy and designs secure, scalable architectures across hybrid and cloud-native environments: Zero Trust, identity, DevSecOps and platform resilience on AWS and GCP.

IAMZero TrustAWS / GCPTerraformKubernetesGo
Certifications
  • TOGAF 9 Certified
  • CISSP
  • CCSP
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS Security Specialty
  • Google Professional Cloud Architect
  • Okta Certified Professional
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Tania Fedirko
Co-founder · FinOps & Cost Governance

Tania Fedirko

Principal FinOps Architect, NatWest Group · AWS Community Builder

FinOps expert in cloud financial governance, cost optimization and multi-cloud strategy. Tania aligns engineering, finance and business across cloud, Kubernetes and AI workloads, applying FinOps best practices to LLM APIs and token-based usage while keeping things sustainable and scalable.

FinOpsFinOps for AICost GovernanceMulti-cloudGreenOpsAWS
Certifications
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner
  • FinOps Certified Professional
  • FinOps Certified Engineer
  • FinOps for AI Certified
  • FinOps Certified Instructor
  • Cloud Sustainability (GreenOps)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
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How we engage

Lightweight to start. Senior throughout.

Assess

A focused review of your cloud security posture and cost structure. You get a clear, prioritized picture of risk and waste, usually within weeks.

Architect

We design the target state: identity model, guardrails, FinOps operating model and reference architectures, mapped to your compliance obligations.

Embed

We implement alongside your team, automate the guardrails, and hand over with the standards and training that keep it secure and efficient long after.

Get started

Let's make your cloud safer and cheaper.

Tell us where it hurts: runaway spend, a looming audit, an identity mess, or an AI rollout nobody's governing. We'll come back with a concrete first step.

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