Amazon Announces ‘Braket’ Quantum Computing Service Via the Cloud

(WSJ) Amazon. com Inc.’s cloud-services division is offering select enterprise customers the ability to experiment with early-stage quantum-computing services over the cloud, following other companies racing to commercialize the emerging technology.
Amazon Clients Will have Access from Providers D-Wave Systems, IonQ and Rigetti
Amazon Web Services Inc. said the new service, Amazon Braket, is “in preview” as of Monday this week. The platform lets enterprise customers explore how they could benefit from quantum computers by developing and testing quantum algorithms in simulations. Clients will also have access to different early-stage quantum-computing hardware from providers including D-Wave Systems Inc., IonQ Inc. and Rigetti Computing.
Braket refers to “bra-ket,” a standard notation for describing quantum states.