One of the biggest challenges for organizations that adopt the cloud is aligning their development spend with business initiatives while managing and optimizing spend. That’s Joe Daly’s job at Nationwide, where he began overseeing the insurer’s cloud migration more than two years ago. I spoke to Joe about how this shift has created greater transparency, flexibility, and efficiency as we recorded it as a podcast.

From peak CPU and peak RAM, to decommissioning costs, there’s more to think about than TCO. How can you assess (at a detailed level) whether migrating X application to the cloud is going to make sense for your organisation?

Siliconexion sat down with me today to talk about cloud migration and what you need to take into account before embarking on a business transformation enabled by the cloud. You can read the interview here.

Retaiil Week wrote an aritlce this week about technology companies and how they have turned themselves into platforms. I was interviewed to give the Amazon viewpoint on this. You can read the article here (registration required).

Whilst in Hong Kong for the AWS Transformation Day, some of my AWS colleagues and I sat down with Edge Markets (a publication in Malaysia) to talk about AI and the power of the cloud in helping businesses adopt AI and ML to accelerate business outcomes. You can read the whole interview here.

IDG Connect came to visit AWS this week and sat down with me to talk about migration strategies and serverless architectures. You can read the whole interview here.

Earlier this week I presented at a Gartner round table for CFO’s in Atlanta. The topic was how organisations use the cloud to transform and how the value from that transformation is expressed to the business. My presentation can be viewed on the Gartner website here (registration required).

So while I was working in Hong Kong this week, I wandered out during one of the downpours that happen at this time of year here and managed to catch lighting hitting the buildings on the other side of the harbour.

ZDNet visited AWS today and sat down with me to discuss the steps for creating a successful cloud adoption business case. Coverage of the conversation can be viewed here.