AWS Declares "The Year of Agentic AI"... Supporting Korea's AI Ecosystem with Partners

Investment of $200 Million to Secure 1 Million NVIDIA Chips
$500 Million Investment in Anthropic; Latest Models Provided to Customers
Partner Strategy for Korean Market Unveiled

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has designated this year as the inaugural year of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and plans to strengthen collaboration with its partners to support the development of AI ecosystems for domestic customers. To this end, AWS will additionally introduce NVIDIA’s AI semiconductors and, in collaboration with Anthropic, provide its customers with the latest AI models on AWS.

Rahul Pathak, Vice President of Data and AI GTM at AWS, stated at a press conference held on the morning of the 22nd at the AWS Korea headquarters in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, “This is the year of AI agents,” adding, “We will work with our partners to help customers seize opportunities in the era of AI agents.”

Rahul Pathak, Vice President of Data and AI GTM at Amazon Web Services, is speaking at a press conference held on the morning of the 22nd at the AWS Korea office building in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. AWS

AWS announced that it has made a facility investment of 200 million dollars (approximately 296 billion won) and secured 1 million chips from NVIDIA. In addition, AWS intends to enable customers to see results from day one by leveraging its own AI chips, Trainium and Inferentia, as well as platforms for building AI agents such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and Bedrock AgentCore.

Furthermore, Vice President Rahul Pathak revealed that AWS will support Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.7, on its generative AI platform, Amazon Bedrock. Opus 4.7 offers improved performance across all areas compared to previous models, making it particularly suitable for designing and operating AI agents.

The two companies are also expanding their strategic cooperation. Anthropic will invest more than 100 billion dollars (approximately 147.77 trillion won) in AWS technology over the next ten years and will be supplied with up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of AI infrastructure. AWS will also support its AI training-specialized chip, Trainium. In addition, Amazon, the parent company of AWS, will make a new investment of 5 billion dollars (approximately 7.4 trillion won) in Anthropic and could invest up to 20 billion dollars (approximately 29.5 trillion won) depending on performance. Previously, Amazon had invested 8 billion dollars (approximately 1.18 trillion won) in Anthropic.

Through this collaboration, AWS will not only introduce the latest Claude models but also secure Anthropic as a major customer for its proprietary AI chip, Trainium. For Anthropic, this partnership provides access to enterprise customers through AWS, the world’s leading cloud provider.

Bang Heeran, Head of Partner Division at AWS Korea, is speaking at a press conference held on the morning of the 22nd at the AWS Korea headquarters in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. AWS

For the domestic market, AWS presented three partner strategies: expanding partner coverage and deepening collaboration, accelerating marketplace growth, and strengthening industry-specific partner strategies. AWS aims to combine the industry expertise of its partners with its own AI capabilities to drive growth for all involved.

According to Omdia’s “2025 Partner Ecosystem Multiplier Study,” AWS partners generate up to 7.13 dollars in revenue for every 1 dollar spent on AWS, an increase from 6.4 dollars in 2022. In fact, MegazoneCloud, an AWS partner in Korea, achieved 65% revenue growth and 160% profit growth year-over-year through the marketplace.

Bang Heeran, Head of Partner Division at AWS Korea, stated, “AWS grew by 24% in the fourth quarter of last year, which was the fastest growth rate in nearly three years. Our partners also grow with us, and we will help them access greater value through the marketplace and other channels,” adding, “We aim to establish ourselves as a strategic partner focused on our customers’ business outcomes.”

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