The mission is to support the advancement of academic research by providing resources to researchers at accredited institutions, enabling them to leverage cloud technology to improve, facilitate, and accelerate their research and the research of their community.
The AWS Imagine Grant program aims to provide support to nonprofits based on their technology adoption stage and organizational goals. It showcases two main award categories:
The Go Further, Faster Award targets highly innovative projects leveraging cloud technology for scalable and repeatable solutions, potentially impacting an entire industry or field. It emphasizes the use of advanced cloud services like AI, ML, high performance computing, IoT, etc., and offers up to $150,000 USD of unrestricted financial support, AWS promotional credits, technical guidance, training, and marketing promotion.
The Momentum to Modernize Award focuses on funding foundational technology projects, such as cloud migration or application modernization. It is designed for nonprofits needing support for infrastructure projects and offers up to $50,000 USD of unrestricted financial support, AWS promotional credits, project implementation guidance, training, and marketing promotion.