Amazon Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. With the service, customers can test and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum circuit simulators and run them on different quantum hardware technologies.

Last year in December 2019 at re:Invent, the company introduced a slew of quantum cloud computing capabilities on their cloud platform including Amazon Braket, Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, and the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Now almost a year later, Amazon Braket is generally available (GA) on AWS and customers can now make use of both the classically-powered circuit simulator and quantum computers from D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti.

Users can access Braket through a notebook-style interface and can use the console to choose the desired AWS region and create a notebook instance. By creating a notebook instance, the user selects an instance type and Identity Access Management (IAM) role. Once the instance is available, the user can design a quantum algorithm using the available tools or choose a pre-existing one. Subsequently, when the algorithm is ready, the user can use Braket to test the algorithm with a simulator, before running it on one of the available quantum hardware providers.

AWS is not the only cloud platform providing a quantum managed service. Microsoft, for instance, offers Azure Quantum a service still in preview which allows a select set of partners access to three prototype quantum computers from IonQ, Honeywell, and QCI. Furthermore, IBM provides quantum computing services since 2016.

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