Yup, you are right: "To minimize latency and page load times, Amazon Silk routes requests through remote proxy servers powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Yup, you are right: "To minimize latency and page load times, Amazon Silk routes requests through remote proxy servers powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. These cloud servers provide high-performance connection speeds and computing power not normally available to a mobile form factor." http://docs.aws.amazon.com/silk/latest/developerguide/introduction.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/silk/latest/developerguide/introd...