Amazon Research Awards Fall 2026: Research Funding and AWS Credits for Academic Researchers

Amazon is inviting academic researchers and research institutions to submit proposals for the Fall 2026 edition of its Amazon Research Awards programme.

The programme supports innovative academic research addressing important technological challenges across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cryptography and other emerging research fields.

Through the initiative, Amazon provides selected researchers with unrestricted research funding, AWS promotional credits and opportunities to collaborate with Amazon scientists.

The programme is particularly relevant to university researchers, academic faculty members and research teams working on advanced technology solutions.

Research Areas The Fall 2026 call covers nine research areas:

1. Agentic AI.
2. AI for Information Security.
3. Amazon Security.
4. Automated Reasoning.
5. AWS Cryptography.
6. Build on Trainium: Agentic, Recursive Improvement of Kernels and Frameworks.
7. Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation.
8. On-Device Multimodal Perception.
9. Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception.

Benefits Successful applicants may receive:

• Unrestricted research funding.
• AWS promotional credits.
• Access to technical training resources.
• Consultation and guidance from an assigned Amazon research contact.
• Opportunities to participate in Amazon research events.
• Engagement with Amazon scientists and engineers.

Eligibility Requirements The programme is designed for academic researchers submitting research proposals through eligible academic institutions or organisations. Applicants should

• Develop a research proposal addressing one of the advertised research areas.
• Demonstrate the scientific quality and originality of their proposed work.
• Explain the potential impact of their research.
• Meet the institutional and research-area requirements outlined in the relevant application guidelines.

Application Deadline

November 11, 2026.

How to Apply

Researchers should review the individual research-area requirements and submit their proposals through Amazon's official Research Awards platform.

Official opportunity and application information:

https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals

Important Information:

Through the initiative, Amazon provides selected researchers with unrestricted research funding, AWS promotional credits and opportunities to collaborate with Amazon scientists.

The programme is particularly relevant to university researchers, academic faculty members and research teams working on advanced technology solutions.

The awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator's academic institution or organisation. Amazon does not retain intellectual property rights over the resulting research.

This is research funding, not an undergraduate scholarship or an individual cash award.