Amazon Research Awards (ARA) - AI for Information Security

AWS is committed to helping customers achieve the highest levels of security in the cloud. Our security services use cutting-edge machine learning (ML) algorithms to improve the security posture of AWS accounts. We aim to continue advancing possible solutions for some of the most challenging problems in information security. We are seeking to fund machine learning research on the following topics in information security:

• Threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection for cloud security
• Generative AI and foundation models for information security
• Graph modeling and anomaly detection on graphs
• Learning with limited/noisy labels and weakly supervised learning
• ML for malware analysis and detection
• Finding security vulnerabilities using ML
• Causal inference for information security
• Zero/one-shot learning for information security
• Reinforcement learning for information security
• Protecting and preserving data privacy in the cloud
• Securing generative AI and foundation models

• Unrestricted funds, no more than $80,000 USD on average
• AWS Promotional Credits, no more than $40,000 USD on average

• More information about the program is available here and full ARA program rules available here.
• The application portal can be found here.
• For any other questions, please contact the Research Office.