Amazon Silk Browser
Amazon introduced a low cost tablet, the Kindle Fire aiming to be the content delivery mechanism. To keep the cost low, Amazon has to cut some hardware features and be very creative to make the device and its software responsive.. as silk. 
One of the major features to mitigate the performance issue with less hardware is the new Silk browsing technology that Amazon gave to its Fire tablet. The technology speeds up Web page rendering by using back-end Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) (EC2) infrastructure as an intelligent proxy. The technology essentially monitors your Web browsing behavior, pre-loads and pre-renders Web pages in a mobile tablet optimized fashion before they hit your device. Users will perceive a much faster Web rendering on the Kindle Fire as the cloud servers are doing all the heavy-lifting work ahead of time.
The fast Web rendering also comes with few concerns related to Amazon proxy role, which seems to keep track of your browsing habits not only during your browsing session for better predictive pre-fetch mechanism, but Amazon vows keep user data up to 30 days, supposedly for future session acceleration but Amazon could mine the data for other marketing purposes.
Being an US based company, Amazon has to comply to US court order to intercept and record your communications if needed.
Luckily, Amazon lets user to “op-out” for this technology if users choose to protect their privacy over faster Web surfing speed.
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