Choosing a Cloud Provider for Strategic Business Reasons with Evan Reiser

In this episode with Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security, we explored how positioning and an understanding of who your ideal customers are and what their needs are can influence technology choices, including which cloud provider you build on. HighlightsHow a seemingly pure technology choice like cloud provider can have serious implications for customer experience. The difference between having a board-level discussion about cloud providers is different from gathering the engineering team to talk about cloud infrastructure Why being integrated in the Microsoft ecosystem was a strategic business decision and how technology decisions in general can be high-level business decisionsWhy technology teams should think more about what the customers need and want instead of just choosing the best tool from a technical perspectiveEvan’s hesitations about making the transition to Azure and why they did it anywayWhy they chose to re-architect at the time they didEven though the move to Azure was made to improve customer experience, customers don’t necessarily have a different experience since the moveWhy founders should keep in mind that startups rarely fail because their technology doesn’t work, but because they don’t meet the needs of their customersLinks: Evan on LinkedInAbnormal Security