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Document history for the Amazon Braket Developer Guide

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Document history for the Amazon Braket Developer Guide - Amazon Braket

The following table describes the documentation for this release of Amazon Braket.

  • API version: April 28, 2022

  • Latest API Reference update: December 15, 2023

  • 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, AmazonBraketFullAccess now only provides s3:* actions to the aws:PrincipalAccount. This restricts access to the requester's own buckets only.

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 braket.{region}.api.aws .

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 Create an Amazon Braket notebook instance

Updated the documentation to add information to create a notebook instance for new and existing Amazon Braket customers.

November 27, 2023

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:

  • Create a hybrid job from local Python code

  • Install additional Python packages and source code

  • Save and load data into a hybrid job instance

  • Best practices for hybrid job decorators

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 servicerole/ path. For information on policy updates, see the Amazon Braket updates to AWS managed policies table.

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

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