Amazon Web Services recently held an event in Vancouver targeting Canada’s West Coast to add to their workforce. Web Services along with the team working on Amazon’s ambitious tablet web browser known as Silk will be hiring aggressively in order to grow their Vancouver workforce and gain more ground on Apple and Android devices in the burgeoning tablet industry.
Silk relies on Amazon’s own servers to share the processing workload is aiming to offer customers the fast possible webpage load times. According to Amazon, modern websites are more complex and inventive than ever before. By throwing the most horsepower behind a browser intended for tablet use, it will go a long way in separating from the pack. Browsing is fundamental to how we use our tablets, and given their lack of processing power as compared to our laptops, any help is appreciated.
Silk is named for the browser’s likeness to a thread of silk, which although invisible to the naked eye forms an extremely strong bond between two things. The company, which operates what they call the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) will be able to offer companies the opportunity to leverage their capacity on that same server to further improve load times and the overall browsing experience.
Amazon currently employs a growing team of employees in Vancouver and appears to be happy with what Canada and Vancouver in particular have to offer talent wise.
For a deeper look into how Silk works, check out the video below.
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