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.

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.

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.

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.

Today I presented at AWS re:Invent on the key considerations organisations should make as they consider a migration to the cloud from their on-premises data centre. Joining me on stage was Greg Cope of the Financial Times who shared stories from his experiences in migrating to AWS.

Today I presented at the AWS Transformation Day London on how to write a business case for a migration to the AWS cloud. You can view the video here and see coverage from Hosting Journalist here.

The figures are in, Chapter Eight processed over £125m of ecommerce transactions in 2012 – that’s 21% up on 2011 and PCI DSS Level 1 certified to boot.

Whilst at today’s Merchant Agent Risk Forum in London, a topic that frequently came up was that of the types of due diligence merchants* should be undertaking when evaluating an agent* to build and operate a website on their behalf that accepts payments.