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susan_cassidy · 09-29-2011, 11:48 AM

I've not heard that the K2 (or K1) browser traffic goes through Amazon. No reason for it to have to. The purpose of the caching on the Amazon servers on Silk is to reduce the time it takes to display a page, from what I read. Similar to what Akamai does, except apparently the Silk software does some pre-processing in order to display the page (probably interprets things like CSS and JavaScript).

09-29-2011, 11:48 AM	#7
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	I've not heard that the K2 (or K1) browser traffic goes through Amazon. No reason for it to have to. The purpose of the caching on the Amazon servers on Silk is to reduce the time it takes to display a page, from what I read. Similar to what Akamai does, except apparently the Silk software does some pre-processing in order to display the page (probably interprets things like CSS and JavaScript).