Amazon now offers a quantum computing simulator with actual quantum computing access. In this article, we:
- Explain AWS Braket
- Look at pricing and hardware options
- Give directions for running the local simulator
- Run some sample code
What’s AWS Braket?
In 2019, AWS released Braket, a fully managed service that offers quantum computing. Just this month, though, the more exciting thing happened: Braket became available to the general public! Braket is aimed at developers and researchers who want to build, experiment, and test quantum algorithms on actual quantum circuit simulators and hardware.
Quantum computing is a big deal (though how much of a big deal is up for debate). That’s because it has the potential to solve computational problems that are, to this day, unable to solve with classic computers. Quantum computing might be able to revolutionize machine learning, drug discovery, financial markets, and dozens of other fields.
But traditional quantum computing, which dates to the early 1980s, is expensive and resource heavy. With AWS Braket, Amazon offers an affordable way for developers, researchers, scientists—anyone—to experiment with quantum computing. Braket allows you to:
- Design and build quantum algorithms (from scratch or pre-built)
- Choose simulators to test and run algorithms
- Run algorithms on different quantum computers
- Learn quantum computing and evaluate its potential for your organization
Qubit access: Paid quantum computing
Braket offers free and paid versions. If you opt for the paid version, this is what the instances look like:
