AWS Expands Quantum Services with Alpine Quantum Technologies Trapped-Ion System
The device is now available via the Amazon Braket service in the Europe (Stockholm) Region (eu-north-1).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a significant expansion of its quantum computing platform Amazon Braket by integrating Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)’s 12-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer, the IBEX Q1.
The device is now available via the Amazon Braket service in the Europe (Stockholm) Region (eu-north-1).
Located in Innsbruck, Austria, the IBEX Q1 system features full all-to-all qubit connectivity thanks to a calcium-40 ion crystal in a radio-frequency trap, enabling any qubit pair to interact directly.
At launch, the device records a two-qubit gate fidelity of 97.7% across all qubit pairs. Customers can now run quantum algorithms on this system through unified interfaces using the Braket SDK, CUDA-Q, PennyLane or Qiskit.
The device operates at room temperature, fits within two standard 19-inch racks and consumes less than 2 kW of power—making it a practical addition to the quantum cloud ecosystem.
“This addition helps meet the needs of European customers who require data residency within the EU while exploring quantum computing applications,” AWS said in a blog post.
The system is accessible on-demand for experimentation and supports priority access via Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs for time-sensitive workloads.
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