Amazon Silk—Amazon's Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser

The web browser on Kindle Fire introduces a radical new paradigm -- a "split browser" architecture that accelerates the power of the mobile device hardware by using the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services Cloud. The result is a faster web browsing experience, and it's available exclusively on Kindle Fire.

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[j00mi]

Hm I'm not sure. Seems that the ec2 is your proxy with some UA depending postprocessing stuff + cache. This isn't really new. I would like to see an technical report about amazonsilk. And not like this video a bunch of people who speak about how innovative they are and how much they like the project. If I want to hear such things I would listen to the apple keynote conference.

[Xaneild]

Without music it's awkward. 

[Shawn Agen]

too bad your new approach is faulty and worthless. you wan to be different? congrats. you are the absolute worst...which is in its own light being different. the damn thing crashes every ten minutes and still no fix. instea of tryin to make your own browser so people cant just transfer things over from other devices to make them buy fromnamazon, mayne you could have stuck your ego up your asses and focused on getting a browser that actually works

[warlockuk]

Silk seems to do 3d CSS transformations but doesn't seem to want to do backface hiding. Gah.

[killwize]

CENSORSHIP CENSORSHIP CENSORSHIP!

fuck the cloud

[Donald Murray]

Now, I remember. Spyglass Inc sold a browser that was used by QNX way back in the 90's and was used as basis for MS Explorer, but they also made PRISM, now owned by OpenTV and NAGRA.....IS this same technology (may even be the technology used by Amazon).

[Donald Murray]

This is NOT new. I remember looking at this type of content delivery service based on resolution, etc, way way back (like 1995). I can't remember offhand the company that did this....but they offered it.

You can also do this from the website using content delivery layouts (stylesheets).

There also has been a lot of work done on QOS delivery of video dependent on bandwidth.

Nothing new here.

[TotalFSUK]

It sounds great with all of the advertisements and heavy flash sites if you open 20 tabs in your browser it kills even the most powerful computer. This is the future of browsing and I can't wait when it will come out for a PC if it ever will. There is so many websites which are badly written and put massive loads on our machines and I think this is way to go.