{"id":231833,"date":"2026-06-15T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:25:13","slug":"new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m\/","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s IT office partners with AWS for cloud and AI services, strategy saving taxpayers $58M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m\/\">New York&#8217;s IT office partners with AWS for cloud and AI services, strategy saving taxpayers $58M<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-yorks-it-office-partners-with-aws-for-cloud-and-ai-services-strategy-saving-taxpayers-58m\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-15 10:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New York State Office of Information Technology Services has signed an enterprise cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement aims to alleviate procurement challenges for state agencies, accelerate statewide innovation, and provide improved technology tools and training to the New York State workforce at a lower cost.<\/li>\n<li>The move expands the state&#8217;s use of AI, following the earlier adoption of the custom AI tool &#8220;AI Pro&#8221; powered by Google Gemini for over 100,000 state employees.<\/li>\n<li>Under the leadership of Dru Rai, the IT office serves as the singular service provider for all New York State agencies, transitioning to a dedicated service model that claims to reduce the volume of unresolved incidents and requests, benefiting agency efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>This new service model and the collective strategy for enterprise agreements have reportedly saved the state and its taxpayers $58 million so far.<\/li>\n<li>Dru Rai emphasized the commitment to innovation, affordability, and ensuring residents receive timely services, citing AWS as a trusted partner in their ongoing efforts to upskill the state workforce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s IT office partners with AWS for cloud and AI services, strategy saving taxpayers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1149809222-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-231833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231835,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231833\/revisions\/231835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}