Here's hoping Amazon give you the option to turn it off.

cshenoy · on Sept 28, 2011

They do:

"You can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or 'off-cloud' mode. Off-cloud mode allows web pages generally to go directly to your computer rather than pass through our servers. As such, it does not take advantage of Amazon’s cloud computing services to speed-up web content delivery." [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

famousactress · on Sept 28, 2011

Great. Double the compatibility testing.

culturestate · on Sept 28, 2011

".. allows web pages generally to go directly .."

I wonder why "generally?" Is there some part that will always have to go through EC2?