The following table describes the documentation for this release of Amazon Braket.
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API version: April 28, 2022
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Latest API Reference update: December 15, 2023
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Latest documentation update: March 17, 2025
Change |
Description |
Date |
New device Forte-Enterprise-1 |
Added support for the IonQ Forte-Enterprise-1 device. An 36 quibit device that utilizes trapped ion technology. |
March 17, 2025 |
Improved S3 conditions permissions |
To improve security, |
March 7, 2025 |
New device Rigetti Ankaa-3 |
Added support for the Rigetti Ankaa-3 device. An 84 quibit device that utilizes scalable multi-chip technology. |
January 14, 2025 |
Rigetti Ankaa-2 device retirement |
Removed support for the Rigetti Ankaa-2 device. |
January 14, 2025 |
Support for IPv6 traffic |
Amazon Braket now supports IPv6 traffic using the dualstack endpoint |
December 12, 2024 |
Support for NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q on Amazon Braket |
Customers can now run quantum programs using NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q developer framework on Amazon Braket. |
December 6, 2024 |
IonQ Forte-1 device is readily available |
IonQ Forte-1 device is no longer reservation-only and now readily availble to our customers. |
November 22, 2024 |
Rigetti Aspen-M-3 device retirement |
Removed support for the Rigetti Aspen-M-3 device. |
September 27, 2024 |
IonQ Harmony device retirement |
Removed support for the IonQ Harmony device. |
August 29, 2024 |
New device Rigetti Ankaa-2 |
Added support for the Rigetti Ankaa-2 device. An 84 quibit device that utilizes scalable multi-chip technology. |
August 26, 2024 |
Developer guide reorganization |
The new developer guide takes the existing Build, Test, Run customer journey and guides users along this path with Amazon Braket. |
August 23, 2024 |
OQC Lucy device retirement |
Removed support for the OQC Lucy device. |
June 28, 2024 |
New device IQM Garnet and region Europe North 1 |
Added support for the IQM Garnet device. A 20-qubit device with a square lattice topology. Expanded Braket supported regions to Europe North 1 (Stockholm). |
May 22, 2024 |
Local detuning released |
Experimental capabilities now include the local detuning feature of QuEra’s Aquila QPU. |
April 11, 2024 |
Notebook inactivity manager released |
When creating a notebook instance, enable the inactivity manager and set an idle duration time to automatically reset the Braket notebook instance. |
March 27, 2024 |
Table of contents rework |
Reorganized the Amazon Braket table of contents to abide by the AWS style guide requirements and improve the flow of content for customer experience. |
December 12, 2023 |
Braket direct released |
Added support for Braket direct features, including: |
November 27, 2023 |
Updated the documentation to add information to create a notebook instance for new and existing Amazon Braket customers. |
November 27, 2023 |
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Updated Bring your own container (BYOC) |
Updated the documentation to add information about when to BYOC, the recipe to BYOC, and running Braket Hybrid Jobs on the container. |
October 18, 2023 |
Hybrid jobs decorator released |
Added Running your local code as a hybrid job page. Contains examples:
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October 16, 2023 |
Added Queue visibility |
Updated the Developer's Guide documentation to include queue depth and queue position. Updated the API documnetation to reflect new API changes for queue visibility. |
September 25, 2023 |
Standardize naming in documentation |
Updated the documentation to change any instances of "job" to "hybrid job" and "task" to "quantum task" |
September 11, 2023 |
New device IonQ Aria 2 |
Added support for the IonQ Aria 2 device |
September 8, 2023 |
Updated Native Gates |
Updated the documentation to add information about programmatic access to native gates from Rigetti. |
August 16, 2023 |
Xanadu departure |
Updated the documentation to remove all Xanadu devices |
June 2, 2023 |
New device IonQ Aria |
Added support for the IonQ Aria device |
May 16, 2023 |
Retired Rigetti device |
Discontinued support for Rigetti Aspen-M-2 |
May 2, 2023 |
Updated AmazonBraketFullAccess policy information |
Updated the script that defines the contents of the AmazonBraketFullAccess policy to include the servicequotas:GetServiceQuota and cloudwatch:GetMetricData actions as well as information about limitations with respect to quotas. |
April 19, 2023 |
Guided Journeys launch |
Changed the documentation to reflect the more up to date and simplified method for Braket onboarding. |
April 5, 2023 |
New device Rigetti Aspen-M-3 |
Added support for the Rigetti Aspen-M-3 device |
January 17, 2023 |
New adjoint gradient feature |
Added information about the adjoint gradient feature offered by SV1 |
December 7, 2022 |
New algorithm library feature |
Added information about the Braket algorithm library, which provides a catalog of pre-built quantum algorithms |
November 28, 2022 |
D-Wave departure |
Updated the documentation to accommodate the removal of all D-Wave devices |
November 17, 2022 |
New device QuEra Aquila |
Added support for the QuEra Aquila device |
October 31, 2022 |
Support for Braket Pulse |
Added support for Braket Pulse, which allows for pulse control to be used on Rigetti and OQC devices |
October 20, 2022 |
Support for IonQ native gates |
Added support for the native gate set offered by the IonQ device |
September 13, 2022 |
New instance quotas |
Updated the default classical compute instance quotas associated with Hybrid Jobs |
August 22, 2022 |
New service dashboard |
Updated console screenshots to include the service dashboard |
August 17, 2022 |
New device Rigetti Aspen-M-2 |
Added support for the Rigetti Aspen-M-2 device |
August 12, 2022 |
New OpenQASM features |
Added OpenQASM features support for the local simulators (braket_sv and braket_dm) |
August 4, 2022 |
New cost tracking procedures |
Added how to get near-real time maximum cost estimates for simulators and hardware workloads |
July 18, 2022 |
New Xanadu Borealis device |
Added support for the Xanadu Borealis device |
June 2, 2022 |
New onboarding simplification procedures |
Added information on how the new and simplified onboarding procedures work |
May 16, 2022 |
New device D-Wave Advantage_system6.1 |
Added support for the D-Wave Advantage_system6.1 device |
May 12, 2022 |
Support for embedded simulators |
Added how to run embedded simulations with hybrid jobs and how to use the PennyLane lightning simulator |
May 4, 2022 |
AmazonBraketFullAccess - Full access policy for Amazon Braket |
Added s3:ListAllMyBuckets permissions to allow users to view and inspect the buckets created and used for Amazon Braket |
March 31, 2022 |
Support for OpenQASM |
Added OpenQASM 3.0 support for gate-based quantum devices and simulators |
March 7, 2022 |
New Quantum Hardware Provider, Oxford Quantum Circuits and new region, eu-west-2 |
Added support for OQC and eu-west-2 |
February 28, 2022 |
New Rigetti device |
Added support for Rigetti Aspen M-1 |
February 15, 2022 |
New resource limits |
Increased the maximum number of concurrent DM1 and SV1 tasks from 55 to 100 |
January 5, 2022 |
New Rigetti device |
Added support for Rigetti Aspen-11 |
December 20, 2021 |
Retired Rigetti device |
Discontinued support for Rigetti Aspen-10 device |
December 20, 2021 |
New result type |
Reduced density matrix result type supported by local density matrix simulator and DM1 devices |
December 20, 2021 |
Updated policy description |
Amazon Braket updated the role ARN to include the |
November 29, 2021 |
Amazon Braket Jobs |
User guide for Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs and API added |
November 29, 2021 |
New Rigetti device |
Added support for Rigetti Aspen-10 |
November 20, 2021 |
Retired D-Wave device |
Discontinued support for D-Wave QPU, Advantage_system1 |
November 4, 2021 |
New D-Wave device |
Added support for an additional D-Wave QPU, Advantage_system4 |
October 5, 2021 |
New noise simulators |
Added support for a Density matrix simulator (DM1), which can simulate circuits of up to 17 qubits and a local noise simulator braket_dm |
May 25, 2021 |
PennyLane support |
Added support for PennyLane on Amazon Braket |
December 8, 2020 |
New simulator |
Added support for a Tensor Network Simulator (TN1), which allows larger circuits |
December 8, 2020 |
Task batching |
Braket supports customer task batching |
November 24, 2020 |
Manual qubit allocation |
Braket supports manual qubit allocation on the Rigetti device |
November 24, 2020 |
Adjustable quotas |
Braket supports self-service adjustable quotas for your task resources |
October 30, 2020 |
Support for PrivateLink |
You can set up private VPC endpoints for your Braket jobs |
October 30, 2020 |
Support for tags |
Braket supports API-based tags for the quantum-task resource |
October 30, 2020 |
New D-Wave device |
Added support for an additional D-Wave QPU, Advantage_system1 |
September 29, 2020 |
Initial release |
Initial release of the Amazon Braket documentation |
August 12, 2020 |