Document history for the Amazon Braket Developer Guide
The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon Braket.
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Latest API Reference update: November 20, 2025
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Latest documentation update: January 14, 2026
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Change |
Description |
Date |
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Update "Working with reservations" pages |
Improved clarity of the "Working with reservations" pages |
February 3, 2026 |
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Support Python version 3.12 for Braket notebooks and managed containers |
Added Python version 3.12 support for Amazon Braket notebooks and managed containers (Base, CUDA-Q, PennyLane, and Tensorflow). Includes troubleshooting guide for Python 3.12 upgrade. |
January 21, 2026 |
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Remove P3 examples |
SageMaker is retiring their |
December 19, 2025 |
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New spending limit feature |
Added support for the Amazon Braket spending limit feature, which allows for setting optional budget caps on individual QPUs that automatically validate and reject tasks exceeding the configured spending threshold. |
November 20, 2025 |
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New Braket device AQT IBEX-Q1 |
Added support for a the AQT IBEX-Q1 device. This device is based on a crystal of 40Ca+ ions in a macroscopic radio frequency trap sitting in ultra-high vacuum chamber. |
November 18, 2025 |
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New native support for CUDA-Q on Amazon Braket NBIs |
Added native support for CUDA-Q in Amazon Braket notebook instances. For more information, see CUDA-Q in NBIs. |
November 10, 2025 |
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IonQ Aria-2 device retirement |
Removed support for the IonQ Aria-2 device. |
October 27, 2025 |
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Consolidated Hybrid Jobs documentation |
Consolidated the Hybrid jobs sections to appear under Working with Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs. |
October 21, 2025 |
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New Braket provided CUDA-Q container |
Added support for a provided CUDA-Q hybrid jobs container. For more information, see Define the environment for your algorithm script. |
September 2, 2025 |
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New local device emulator feature |
Added support for a Local quantum device emulator tool to emulate your verbatim programs before submitting them to quantum devices. |
August 25, 2025 |
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Moved Pennylane and CUDA-Q pages under Build section |
Moved Pennylane and CUDA-Q pages to appear under the Build section in the table of contents. |
August 15, 2025 |
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New |
Added support for program sets, an operation to run multiple quantum circuits in a single quantum task. |
August 14, 2025 |
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New device IQM Emerald |
Added support for the IQM Emerald device. An 54-quibit device with a square (Crystal) lattice topology. |
July 21, 2025 |
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Updated the AmazonBraketServiceRolePolicy policy |
AmazonBraketServiceRolePolicy now only provides s3:* and logs:* actions to the aws:PrincipalAccount. This restricts access to only the requester's buckets and log groups. |
July 11, 2025 |
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New Experimental Capability feature: Dynamic circuits |
Mid-circuit measurement and feed-forward operations are available as Experimental Capabilities, see Access to dynamic circuits on IQM devices. |
June 26, 2025 |
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Updated the AmazonBraketFullAccess policy |
AmazonBraketFullAccess now includes pricing:GetProducts to display hardware costs on the console. |
April 14, 2025 |
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New device IonQ Forte-Enterprise-1 |
Added support for the IonQ Forte-Enterprise-1 device. An 36 quibit device that utilizes trapped ion technology. |
March 17, 2025 |
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Improved S3 conditions permissions |
To improve security, |
March 7, 2025 |
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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 |
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Rigetti Ankaa-2 device retirement |
Removed support for the Rigetti Ankaa-2 device. |
January 14, 2025 |
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Support for IPv6 traffic |
Amazon Braket now supports IPv6 traffic using the dualstack endpoint |
December 12, 2024 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Rigetti Aspen-M-3 device retirement |
Removed support for the Rigetti Aspen-M-3 device. |
September 27, 2024 |
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IonQ Harmony device retirement |
Removed support for the IonQ Harmony device. |
August 29, 2024 |
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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 |
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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 |
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OQC Lucy device retirement |
Removed support for the OQC Lucy device. |
June 28, 2024 |
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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 |
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Local detuning released |
Experimental capabilities now include the local detuning feature of QuEra's Aquila QPU. |
April 11, 2024 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Braket direct released |
Added support for Braket direct features, including: |
November 27, 2023 |
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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 |
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Hybrid jobs decorator released |
Added Run your local code as a hybrid job page. Contains examples:
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October 16, 2023 |
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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 |
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Standardize naming in documentation |
Updated the documentation to change any instances of "job" to "hybrid job" and "task" to "quantum task" |
September 11, 2023 |
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New device IonQ Aria 2 |
Added support for the IonQ Aria 2 device |
September 8, 2023 |
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Updated Native Gates |
Updated the documentation to add information about programmatic access to native gates from Rigetti. |
August 16, 2023 |
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Xanadu departure |
Updated the documentation to remove all Xanadu devices |
June 2, 2023 |
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New device IonQ Aria |
Added support for the IonQ Aria device |
May 16, 2023 |
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Retired Rigetti device |
Discontinued support for Rigetti Aspen-M-2 |
May 2, 2023 |
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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 |
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Guided Journeys launch |
Changed the documentation to reflect the more up to date and simplified method for Braket onboarding. |
April 5, 2023 |
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New device Rigetti Aspen-M-3 |
Added support for the Rigetti Aspen-M-3 device |
January 17, 2023 |
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New adjoint gradient feature |
Added information about the adjoint gradient feature offered by SV1 |
December 7, 2022 |
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New algorithm library feature |
Added information about the Braket algorithm library, which provides a catalog of pre-built quantum algorithms |
November 28, 2022 |
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D-Wave departure |
Updated the documentation to accommodate the removal of all D-Wave devices |
November 17, 2022 |
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New device QuEra Aquila |
Added support for the QuEra Aquila device |
October 31, 2022 |
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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 |
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Support for IonQ native gates |
Added support for the native gate set offered by the IonQ device |
September 13, 2022 |
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New instance quotas |
Updated the default classical compute instance quotas associated with Hybrid Jobs |
August 22, 2022 |
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New service dashboard |
Updated console screenshots to include the service dashboard |
August 17, 2022 |
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New device Rigetti Aspen-M-2 |
Added support for the Rigetti Aspen-M-2 device |
August 12, 2022 |
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New OpenQASM features |
Added OpenQASM features support for the local simulators (braket_sv and braket_dm) |
August 4, 2022 |
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New cost tracking procedures |
Added how to get near-real time maximum cost estimates for simulators and hardware workloads |
July 18, 2022 |
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New Xanadu Borealis device |
Added support for the Xanadu Borealis device |
June 2, 2022 |
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New onboarding simplification procedures |
Added information on how the new and simplified onboarding procedures work |
May 16, 2022 |
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New device D-Wave Advantage_system6.1 |
Added support for the D-Wave Advantage_system6.1 device |
May 12, 2022 |
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Support for embedded simulators |
Added how to run embedded simulations with hybrid jobs and how to use the PennyLane lightning simulator |
May 4, 2022 |
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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 |
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Support for OpenQASM |
Added OpenQASM 3.0 support for gate-based quantum devices and simulators |
March 7, 2022 |
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New Quantum Hardware Provider, Oxford Quantum Circuits and new region, eu-west-2 |
Added support for OQC and eu-west-2 |
February 28, 2022 |
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New Rigetti device |
Added support for Rigetti Aspen M-1 |
February 15, 2022 |
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New resource limits |
Increased the maximum number of concurrent DM1 and SV1 tasks from 55 to 100 |
January 5, 2022 |
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New Rigetti device |
Added support for Rigetti Aspen-11 |
December 20, 2021 |
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Retired Rigetti device |
Discontinued support for Rigetti Aspen-10 device |
December 20, 2021 |
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New result type |
Reduced density matrix result type supported by local density matrix simulator and DM1 devices |
December 20, 2021 |
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Updated policy description |
Amazon Braket updated the role ARN to include the |
November 29, 2021 |
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Amazon Braket Jobs |
User guide for Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs and API added |
November 29, 2021 |
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New Rigetti device |
Added support for Rigetti Aspen-10 |
November 20, 2021 |
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Retired D-Wave device |
Discontinued support for D-Wave QPU, Advantage_system1 |
November 4, 2021 |
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New D-Wave device |
Added support for an additional D-Wave QPU, Advantage_system4 |
October 5, 2021 |
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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 |
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PennyLane support |
Added support for PennyLane on Amazon Braket |
December 8, 2020 |
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New simulator |
Added support for a Tensor Network Simulator (TN1), which allows larger circuits |
December 8, 2020 |
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Task batching |
Braket supports customer task batching |
November 24, 2020 |
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Manual qubit allocation |
Braket supports manual qubit allocation on the Rigetti device |
November 24, 2020 |
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Adjustable quotas |
Braket supports self-service adjustable quotas for your task resources |
October 30, 2020 |
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Support for PrivateLink |
You can set up private VPC endpoints for your Braket jobs |
October 30, 2020 |
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Support for tags |
Braket supports API-based tags for the quantum-task resource |
October 30, 2020 |
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New D-Wave device |
Added support for an additional D-Wave QPU, Advantage_system1 |
September 29, 2020 |
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Initial release |
Initial release of the Amazon Braket documentation |
August 12, 2020 |
