Amazon Research Awards
Twice-yearly topic-specific calls giving researchers unrestricted funds plus AWS Promotional Credits. Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the PI's institution, with Amazon retaining no intellectual property.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)No award amount or AWS credit allocation is published on the overview or call-for-proposals index page. The page states only that awards are unrestricted funds plus AWS Promotional Credits, structured as unrestricted gifts to the PI's academic institution. Amounts vary by call; do not assume a figur
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · May, NovNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Roughly two rounds a year, each a set of named topic calls. At fetch time no call was open: the Spring 2026 calls closed May 13, 2026 (topics included AI for Information Security, Agentic AI, Amazon 2030, Amazon Security, Build on Trainium, Robotics) and the Fall 2025 calls closed November 12, 2025.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Postdoctoral, Mid-career & senior, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Open to researchers at academic institutions and at non-profit organizations. The overview page does not publish faculty-rank or citizenship restrictions; award rules, FAQs and per-call eligibility live on the individual call-for-proposals pages, which you must read before assuming a doctoral student or practitioner-researcher can be the PI. Awards are made to the institution, so you need an institution able to receive an unrestricted gift.
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- Topics
- machine learning · ai safety and security · sustainability · automated reasoning · economics · robotics
- Apply at
- https://www.amazon.science/research-awards
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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