Part of Amazon's new
Kindle Fire pitch is its promise of Amazon Silk -- a "split browser" exclusive to the tablet that gets the heavy lifting done on its
EC2 cloud servers and promises faster access as a result. Dubbed Silk to represent an "invisible, yet incredibly strong connection", it takes advantage of Amazon's existing speedy connections, and that so many sites are already hosted on its servers to speed up web access. Another feature is its ability to learn from previous web surfers and use their data to determine how to render a page, and which sites to precache on the device before you even select the next link. While mobile browsers like
Skyfire and
Opera have offered speed boosting proxies before, Amazon thinks its
AWS prowess and the addition of "dynamic decisions" about what to render locally or in the cloud takes it to another level. Read our
live blog of the event for more details, or check out the video explanation and press release after the break.
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