Amazon Research Awards 2026 – Fall Call for Proposals

The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) Fall 2026 call for proposals invites researchers to seek support for projects across nine research areas in artificial intelligence, security, cryptography, machine learning and related fields. Successful recipients receive unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits, along with access to training resources and a point of contact from Amazon’s research community. The programme welcomes proposals addressing theoretical, practical and novel technical challenges with potential for impact at scale.

Unrestricted funding, AWS promotional credits, and access to training resources and mentorship from Amazon scientists and engineers

Open to researchers proposing work aligned with one of the nine Fall 2026 research areas.

Submit a research proposal via the official Amazon Research Awards Fall 2026 website.