Silk browser is only a giant revolution in browsing speed; by moving the actual browser to Amazon's servers and leaving the mobile device for display and input only. This "quantum leap" in browser technology blends Cloud Computing, Virtual Machine and Remote Control into one speedy and elegant solution.
It puts all the heavy lifting over Amazon's Fat pipes for stable Internet access around the world, it uses Amazon's fast server processors to browse and compress what the websites send you and forwards only the absolute minimum over the "last mile" to your device for display.
Congratulations Mr. Bezos this is cloud computing as it should be. Steve
Amazon Silk browser spins a faster mobile web, courtesy of cloud servers (video) -- Engadget: "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. "
