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

[Danielle25796472q07l]

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? 

[JMathews]

AO maps is not supported in raytracing today as it uses global illumination.  I can pass this feedback to the rendering teams to discuss!