Public sector advisor Thomas Beck joins StateScoop in an exclusive interview to look at the state of multi-cloud adoption among state agencies.

Kim Majerus, the head of Amazon Web Services' SLED practice, said several states are building job retraining programs to develop skills needed during the pandemic.

The state is about halfway through building a cloud-based platform to support government agencies working with children, adults with disabilities and low-income residents.

Acquisition capabilities and contract vehicles curb states’ shift to cloud technologies even as agency IT executives want more cloud investment over next three years, report says.

Growing capabilities among states to provision cloud applications and services will enable them move from on-site data centers to the cloud over the next three years.

Some state IT leaders say their previous efforts to consolidate operations have them questioning the efficacy of a cloud migration.