{"id":74354,"date":"2026-06-15T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/74354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:37:08","slug":"new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/74354\/","title":{"rendered":"New York’s IT office partners with AWS for cloud and AI services, strategy saving taxpayers $58M"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York State Office of Information Technology Services<\/a> announced Monday it signed an enterprise cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services<\/a> for artificial intelligence and cloud services as part of the state\u2019s new services strategy that, so far, has netted $58 million in savings for taxpayers.<\/p>\n

The agreement is aimed at alleviating procurement hurdles for state agencies, speeding up statewide innovation efforts and providing \u201cfirst-class technology and training tools to the New York State workforce,\u201d and will make AWS AI and cloud services available to state employees at participating agencies over the next three years. These services, the state claimed, will be delivered at a lower cost than agencies would be paying independently for the same services.<\/p>\n

The announcement expands the state government\u2019s use of AI. In April, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the state\u2019s custom AI tool<\/a> \u2014 called AI Pro, which is powered by Google Gemini \u2014 and its accompanying training materials would be made available to the state government\u2019s entire workforce of more than 100,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of Dru Rai<\/a>, the New York chief information officer and director of ITS, the state\u2019s IT office has been re-envisioned as the singular service provider for all NYS agencies. It is in the final stages of its transition to that dedicated agency service model, which pairs subject matter experts at the agencies with high-level tech support at ITS. This change, the state said, has helped agencies to reduce their volume of year-to-year unresolved incidents and requests, allowing them to get more work done.<\/p>\n

The transition to a new service model also hinges on the proactive strategy with respect to consolidating enterprise agreements, the state added, which has delivered $58 million in cost savings for the state and its taxpayers. This setup will also help expedite the onboarding of agencies and their hardworking employees, so they can work, learn, grow and serve the state with new tools and enhanced capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt ITS, we are committed to providing high-quality technology solutions in the most simple, streamlined, and affordable way possible. I thank AWS for being a trusted partner in our ongoing efforts to upskill the state workforce and assist agencies in delivering for New York, while ensuring our residents get the services they need and deserve in a timely manner,\u201d Rai said. \u201cToday, we are choosing innovation AND affordability, and taking an important step forward in the State\u2019s technology journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Keely<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan
\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Office of Information Technology Services announced Monday it signed an enterprise cloud services agreement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,13975,25,111,40980,684,16803,1672,185,186],"class_list":["post-74354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-amazon-web-services-aws","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-dru-rai","tag-innovation","tag-its","tag-new-york-state","tag-state-local-news","tag-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}