Case Study: Largest U.S. State Government IT Agency cuts cloud project costs by up to 82% with Rackspace Technology

State government agency reduces cloud project costs by up to 82%

A large U.S. state IT department that supports nearly 30 agencies faced limits from a single‑vendor cloud contract: agencies couldn’t easily access best‑of‑breed technology, secure configurations were inconsistent, and the department needed scalability and cost control—challenges amplified by a compressed, pandemic‑era six‑month transition timeline.

Rackspace delivered a secure multicloud‑as‑a‑service model with a Cloud Center of Excellence and managed workloads across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, adding standardized provisioning, reserved pricing and enforced security controls. The program enabled faster, virtual transitions and strong cost optimization—saving one project 82% ($21,800/month) and up to 25% through cloud migration programs—while bringing 23 agencies onto the public cloud and improving long‑term security and cloud strategy.