A fully managed quantum computing service from AWS that provides access to quantum hardware and simulators from multiple providers. Like a laboratory where scientists can experiment with cutting-edge equipment without buying it, Amazon Braket lets researchers and developers explore quantum algorithms using gate-based quantum computers (from IonQ and Rigetti), quantum annealers (from D-Wave), and high-performance simulators — all through a unified API. The service includes a managed Jupyter notebook environment for developing and testing quantum circuits before running them on actual quantum hardware.
A pharmaceutical company researching new drug molecules uses Amazon Braket to simulate molecular interactions using a quantum algorithm. They first test their quantum circuit on Braket's local simulator, then run it on IonQ's trapped-ion quantum computer to explore molecular configurations that would take a classical supercomputer thousands of years to calculate. The pay-per-task pricing means they only pay for the quantum computing time they actually use.