Amazon Braket supported regions and devices

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In Amazon Braket, a device represents a QPU or simulator that you can call to run quantum tasks. Amazon Braket provides access to QPU devices from IonQ, IQM, QuEra, and Rigetti, three on-demand simulators, three local simulators, and one embedded simulator. For all devices, you can find further device properties, such as device topology, calibration data, and native gate sets, on the Devices tab of the Amazon Braket console or by means of the GetDevice API. When constructing a circuit with the simulators, Amazon Braket currently requires that you use contiguous qubits or indices. If you are working with the Amazon Braket SDK, you have access to device properties as shown in the following code example.

from braket.aws import AwsDevice
from braket.devices import LocalSimulator

device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/sv1')              #SV1
# device = LocalSimulator()                                                             #Local State Vector Simulator
# device = LocalSimulator("default")                                                    #Local State Vector Simulator
# device = LocalSimulator(backend="default")                                            #Local State Vector Simulator
# device = LocalSimulator(backend="braket_sv")                                          #Local State Vector Simulator
# device = LocalSimulator(backend="braket_dm")                                          #Local Density Matrix Simulator
# device = LocalSimulator(backend="braket_ahs")                                         #Local Analog Hamiltonian Simulation
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/tn1')            #TN1
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/dm1')            #DM1
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/ionq/Aria-1')                #IonQ
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/ionq/Aria-2')                #IonQ
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/ionq/Forte-1')               #IonQ
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:eu-north-1::device/qpu/iqm/Garnet')                #IQM Garnet
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/quera/Aquila')               #QuEra Aquila
# device = AwsDevice('arn:aws:braket:us-west-1::device/qpu/rigetti/Ankaa-2')            #Rigetti Ankaa-2

# get device properties
device.properties

Supported quantum hardware providers

• IonQ

• IQM

• QuEra Computing

• Rigetti

Supported simulators

• Local state vector simulator (braket_sv) ('Default Simulator')

• Local density matrix simulator (braket_dm)

• Local AHS simulator

• State vector simulator (SV1)

• Density matrix simulator (DM1)

• Tensor network simulator (TN1)

• PennyLane’s Lightning Simulators

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Amazon Braket devices

Provider	Device Name	Paradigm	Type	Device ARN	Region
IonQ	Aria 1	gate-based	QPU	arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/ionq/Aria-1	us-east-1
IonQ	Aria 2	gate-based	QPU	arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/ionq/Aria-2	us-east-1
IonQ	Forte 1	gate-based	QPU (reservation-only)	arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/ionq/Forte-1	us-east-1
IQM	Garnet	gate-based	QPU	arn:aws:braket:eu-north-1::device/qpu/iqm/Garnet	eu-north-1
QuEra	Aquila	Analog Hamiltonian Simulation	QPU	arn:aws:braket:us-east-1::device/qpu/quera/Aquila	us-east-1
Rigetti	Ankaa-2	gate-based	QPU	arn:aws:braket:us-west-1::device/qpu/rigetti/Ankaa-2	us-west-1
AWS	braket_sv	gate-based	Local simulator	N/A (local simulator in Braket SDK)	N/A
AWS	braket_dm	gate-based	Local simulator	N/A (local simulator in Braket SDK)	N/A
AWS	SV1	gate-based	On-demand simulator	arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/sv1	All Regions where Amazon Braket is available.
AWS	DM1	gate-based	On-demand simulator	arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/dm1	All Regions where Amazon Braket is available.
AWS	TN1	gate-based	On-demand simulator	arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/tn1	us-west-2, us-east-1, and eu-west-2

Note

Certain QPUs can only be accessed using reservations through Braket Direct, see Reservations.

To view additional details about the QPUs you can use with Amazon Braket, see Amazon Braket Hardware Providers.

Amazon Braket Regions and endpoints

Amazon Braket is available in the following AWS Regions:

Region availability of Amazon Braket

Region Name	Region	Braket Endpoint	QPUs & Simulators
US East (N. Virginia)	us-east-1	braket.us-east-1.amazonaws.com	IonQ, QuEra, SV1, DM1, TN1
US West (N. California)	us-west-1	braket.us-west-1.amazonaws.com	Rigetti, SV1, DM1
US West 2 (Oregon)	us-west-2	braket.us-west-2.amazonaws.com	SV1, DM1, TN1
EU North 1 (Stockholm)	eu-north-1	braket.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com	IQM
EU West 2 (London)	eu-west-2	braket.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com	SV1, DM1, TN1

Quantum tasks that run on a QPU device can be viewed in the Amazon Braket console in the Region of that device. If you are using the Amazon Braket SDK, you can submit quantum tasks to any QPU device, regardless of the Region in which you are working. The SDK automatically creates a session to the Region for the QPU specified.

For general information about how AWS works with Regions and endpoints, see AWS service endpoints in the AWS General Reference.