Amazon Kindle Fire’s Silk Browser has been purpose built for the mobile tablet from the ground up. Here’s a sampling of the functionality and features.
Wile a standard web request starts begins with all kinds of overhead type things like resolving domains and such, and establishing a TCP connection to handle the http request, Kindle Fire’s new Silk browser has an always on connection open to the cloud servers on the Amazon Web Services cloud so that it’s ready to fire up and get some work done fast.
Amazon Silk is a revolutionary, cloud-assisted browser that utilizes a “split browser” design to harness the horsepower and lightening speed of the Amazon Web Services cloud. In addition, the Silk browser supports Adobe Flash content like YouTube.
Amazon Web Services utilizes peering with large internet service providers, as well as hosting many top websites, which means that many web requests are internal to the Amazon network. Kind of like browsing on your intranet which is lightening fast.
Amazon built the Silk browser to push bits of the workload to the Amazon cloud, which lets Silk do alot more work alot more quickly, and much like a multi threaded environment.
Amazon’s Silk cloud server keeps persistent connections open to all the major sites on the internet, which drastically speeds up your browsing. The need to constatanly reestablish commons connections is the reason that most wireless browsing is slower than you’d like.
As Silk renders up millions and millions of page views each day, it learns more about the individual sites it renders and starts to define patters of browsing. This allows for caching of the most visited pages, again speeding up your browsing.
At $199, the Kindle Fire will be a full $300 cheaper than the lowest-priced iPad 2. This is especially amazing considering all the new technology that the Kindle Fire has built into it like the all new Silk browser.
Establishing TCP connections for each web request eats up precious time and system resources that slow down traditional browsers to a crawl, by leveraging it’s own cloud servers, the Kindle Fire smokes the competition.
In addition to using it’s cloud servers to leverage browsing, Amazon also uses that same cloud to offer unlimited storage for your Kindle Fire so you will never have to worry about running out of space on the Fire itself.
Kindle Fire’s utilizes Amazon’s proprietary EC2 cloud. It has an always connected feature to the backbone of the web, where latency is less than 5 milliseconds to all the big web sites. Typical wireless connections have latencies in the 100 millisecond range.
The $199 Amazon Kindle Fire.