The New York State Office of Information Technology Services announced Monday it signed an enterprise cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services for artificial intelligence and cloud services as part of the state’s new services strategy that, so far, has netted $58 million in savings for taxpayers. The agreement will make AWS AI and cloud services available to state employees at participating agencies over the next three years at a lower cost than agencies would pay independently. In April, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the state’s custom AI tool, AI Pro, powered by Google Gemini, would be made available to the state government’s entire workforce of more than 100,000 employees. Under the leadership of Chief Information Officer Dru Rai, the state’s IT office has been re-envisioned as the singular service provider for all NYS agencies and is in the final stages of its transition to that dedicated agency service model. The transition to a new service model hinges on consolidating enterprise agreements, which has delivered $58 million in cost savings.