Kindle Fire and AWS - A Match Made in Heaven

With Amazon releasing their brand new Kindle Fire, the question on everyone's minds is how will it utilise the cloud to give users a much better tablet experience? Here's a great post on how Amazon is using the Kindle Fire (along with Silk) and AWS to shake things up in the tablet market.

"On Sept 28th, Amazon announced the new Kindle Fire tablet. This post digs into the two key cloud integrations that Amazon brings with Fire.

Amazon Silk, The Cloud Accelerated Browser
The browser deploys a split-architecture where all of the browser subsystems are present on the Kindle Fire as well as on the Amazon’s cloud computing platform, AWS.  Each time a user load a web page, Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely on EC2. The goal is to improve user experience by delivering content to users faster. Silk achieves this in a number of ways. EC2 acts as a staging area where web pages can be pre-processed before being redirected to the user’s browser. It uses content compression techniques, such as re-encoding video and images before sending them to Fire. It also keeps connections constantly open to popular websites, which reduces the time needed to negotiate connections on a one-to-one basis and caches content such as images, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets that are used to render the web pages that users view every day."  >>Read more

Source: CloudAve