If you think that Google AdWords and Facebook are watching you, this service is guaranteed to have a record of *everything* you do on the web. All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon’s cloud. Hopefully you can start to see the problem here. Amazon will keep this connection between your Kindle Fire and EC2 open indefinitely while you are actively surfing, reducing the latency and connection times to retrieve web pages. The concept is to use the power of EC2 to retrieve web pages and pre-render any objects (or reduce their size) in a way that lowers the burden placed on the tablet.Īll web connections from your tablet will connect directly to Amazon, rather than the destination web page. How does it work? Silk relies on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to behave as an intelligent proxy. Amazon has crafted Silk to both increase the speed of mobile browsing and increase battery life.
The real news isn’t just another Android tablet though, it’s the new mobile browser Amazon introduced called Silk. The focus appears to be on a very rich media consumption experience, similar to the iPad. The Fire is a tablet based on the Android software stack with a customized Amazon interface layered over the top. Amazon announced the newest addition to their Kindle line today named Fire.
