Is there a way to enable the AO maps to not go away when rendering

When rendering with raytracing does it get rid of the AO maps completely? When in realtime you can see the AO maps being properly applied but the minute I try to switch it to raytracing it completely ignores the AO maps. I get that the funtion of ray tracing is to kinda get those shadows and what not, but why would it still completely get rid of the AO maps?