Some privacy organizations raised concerns with how Amazon passes Silk traffic via its servers, effectively operating as an Internet service provider for those using the browser. Some early reviewers found that cloud-based acceleration did not necessarily improve page loading speed, most notably on faster connections or for simpler web pages. Silk gives SPDY performance improvements for non-SPDY optimized websites if the pages are sent through Amazon's servers. Silk uses Google's SPDY protocol to speed up loading of web pages. It is based on the open source Chromium project that uses the Blink and V8 engines.įor each webpage, Silk decides which browser subsystems (networking, HTML or page rendering) to run locally on the device and which to run remotely on its own Amazon EC2 servers.

The browser uses a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on Amazon's servers to improve webpage loading performance.

The addition of Silk to the Echo Show was announced at an Amazon event in September 2018. It was launched in November 2011 for Kindle Fire and Fire Phone, and a Fire TV version was launched in November 2017. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, ChineseĪmazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon.

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