Amazon Research Awards AI for Information Security Call for Proposals - Spring 2026

📖 About Amazon Research Awards AI for Information Security

Amazon aims to advance solutions for some of the most challenging problems in information security. This call for proposals seeks to fund AI research on the following topics:

• Trustworthy and reliable agentic AI for security operations, including methodologies for evaluating AI agents in security use cases.
• AI agent access governance: policy verification, guardrails, and conditionally scoped authentication and authorization.
• Threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection in agentic AI systems and cloud environments.
• AI-powered incident response and red-teaming.
• Vulnerability detection and remediation using agentic AI.
• Building and optimizing foundation models through pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, and other techniques to improve performance on security tasks.
• Security of agentic AI systems, including securing toolchains, frameworks, and solutions for confused deputy in delegated agent behaviors.
• Securing generative AI and foundation models, including securing training data content, anonymization, semantic differential privacy, and preventing data leakage from trained models.
• Reinforcement learning for information security.
• Scalable and efficient graph modeling and anomaly detection on graphs.
• Learning with limited/noisy labels and weakly supervised learning.
• AI for malware analysis and detection, with a focus on cloud environments or devices.
• AI-assisted secure code generation and security enhancement of existing codebases.
• Generative AI for cloud infrastructure compliance.

🎁 Benefits of Amazon Research Awards AI for Information Security

Selected Principal Investigators (PIs) may receive:

• Unrestricted funds: Up to $80,000 USD on average.
• AWS Promotional Credits: Up to $40,000 USD on average.
• Training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers.

Additional Notes:

• Awards are structured as one-time unrestricted gifts.
• Budgets should include a list of expected costs specified in USD and exclude administrative overhead costs.
• The final award amount will be determined by the awards panel.

✅ Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for an Amazon Research Awards Program award, the Principal Investigator must:

• Be either:
  • A full-time faculty member at an accredited academic institution.
  • A permanent researcher at a non-governmental organization with recognized legal status in its country (equivalent to 501(c)(3) status under the United States Internal Revenue Code).
• Be at or above the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of application.
• Submit only one proposal per call for proposal period.

📅 Application Date and Process

• Application Deadline: 06 May, 2026
• Applicants must visit the application website to apply.

🌟 Sponsor Organization

• Amazon

For more details, visit the official Amazon Research Awards AI for Information Security page.

• Unrestricted funds, no more than $80,000 USD on average
• AWS Promotional Credits, no more than $40,000 USD on average
• Training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers