Estée Lauder uses Infrastructure as Code, enabling engineers to move fast and release new features.
However, their FinOps practice was reactive: starting with the bills across AWS and GCP and assessing what could be achieved without slowing engineers down. They wanted to build FinOps into the engineering workflow, so it became part of the engineering culture. This would let them measure cost avoidance and help engineers move faster, rather than reacting to cost spikes, policy violations, and tagging issues.
They partnered with Infracost to achieve this. This session is a show-and-tell of how they did it. We will also cover how this is shifting further left, directly into AI code generators, directly into Claude.
Alexandria Towne is the Director of Global Online Engineering, and leads the global cloud platform engineering, security, and operations of Estée Lauder.
Hassan Khajeh Hosseini is a FinOps veteran with 15 years of experience, the CEO of Infracost, and serves on the FinOps Foundation’s governing board.