All data leads to opportunity in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
Rahul Pathak, vice president of Amazon Web Services (AWS) data and AI GTM (go-to-market) institutional sector, said at the AWS data and AI strategy press briefing held at the AWS Korea office in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on the 22nd, "Simply having AI systems does not secure competitiveness, and combining a company's unique data with its AI systems will be the differentiator."
Vice President Pathak works at AWS with global experts, sales, and partner teams to help customers effectively use data and AI capabilities to create real business value. He said, "This year is the year of AI agents, and AI has reached a true turning point beyond the experimental stage to delivering actual business outcomes," adding, "In a changing era, it is important to drive change with a clear direction."
Through conversations with more than 1,000 customers and partners, Vice President Pathak laid out four priorities to consider when adopting AI: defining business goals; putting in place a data utilization framework first; building a security framework that does not hinder innovation; and delivering results in weeks, not months. He said, "Today's successful corporations have built working systems where services are delivered and inference happens even while they sleep," adding, "Data is the core of every AI project, especially Generative AI, and data quality and relevance directly affect an AI model's accuracy, creativity, and reliability."
Global partners such as Accenture, 1CloudHub, and Capgemini have built agentic AI platforms on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, improving productivity across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and insurance by 50% to 85% over previous levels and recording a fourfold ROI (return on investment), he explained.
Vice President Pathak also stressed the need to use AI tools more efficiently. He said, "The era of working with a single tool is over." Access to powerful AI models is no longer a differentiator; what matters now is the ability to integrate these models with a corporation's proprietary information.
At the briefing, AWS said it will offer Anthropic's latest flagship model Claude Opus 4.7 through Amazon Bedrock. Bedrock is AWS's Generative AI platform that lets corporations call up and use external AI models without building their own large language models (LLMs).
On AI security threats, Vice President Pathak said, "AI can quickly spot software vulnerabilities, but if you leverage state-of-the-art models, you have the ability to deploy security code and resolve issues quickly when they arise." He said, "Data and AI security are the top priority for everyone in their work at AWS," adding, "AWS is actually performing reasoning to mathematically assess whether AI-generated answers are correct and appropriate, and is working to deploy code safely."
Vice President Pathak said, "Korean customers move very proactively in adopting new technologies compared with customers in other countries."