(Source: Datamonitor)
Amazon.com, Inc. has introduced Amazon Silk, 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 Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With each page request, Silk determines a division of labor between the mobile hardware and Amazon EC2 (i.e. which browser sub-components run where) that takes into consideration factors like network conditions, page complexity and the location of any cached content. The result is a web browsing experience, and it's available on Kindle Fire, Amazon's new Kindle for movies, music, books, magazines, apps, games, and web browsing.
In addition, EC2 servers have massive computational power. On EC2, available CPU, storage, and available memory can be orders of magnitudes larger than on mobile devices. Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website and deliver them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream, the company said.
"Kindle Fire introduces a revolutionary new web browser called Amazon Silk," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. "We refactored and rebuilt the browser software stack and now push pieces of the computation into the AWS cloud. When you use Silk - without thinking about it or doing anything explicit - you're calling on the raw computational horsepower of Amazon EC2 to accelerate your web browsing."
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