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Are there a lot of entries in the AWS marketplace that you can't run on AWS, but instead access remotely? I thought it was mostly things like AMIs (Windows, etc) or managed services you run on top of EC2 VMs (databases systems, etc). But this is actually hardware operated by a third party...

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Various SaaS vendors are available via the AWS marketplace, including ones that aren't running on AWS.

For example we pay for Datadog (using their EU region which happens to be on GCP) via our AWS bill. As we have 30 day invoicing with AWS this makes it all very convenient.

I'm not sure how this deal works behind the scenes, but AWS already rented access to D-Wave devices previously via AWS Braket. I wonder if they're continuing to operate the hardware for this. I agree it would be an odd choice to put this in the AWS Marketplace if they're not.

The actual quantum computers don't live inside AWS datacenters

https://aws.amazon.com/braket/faqs/ (under security)

Most of AWS Braqet is orchestrating emulators (ie fake quantum computers running on EC2).

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