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by macrael 5380 days ago
It sounds like they are using SPDY for the connection between the device and the cloud, so I believe that means that your connection to the Amazon server is secure. My reading is that Amazon will be able to see the secure traffic so that it can render it cloud side just like any other traffic. But the FAQ blurb is not a definitive answer.
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My guess is everything is secure, but they are terminating the SSL connection, using a private cert to talk to the clients, and then passing along the information about the original cert. If they didn't do that, they wouldn't be able to optimize much since they couldn't read the content. They would also need a private IP address for every user (impractical), because the HTTP headers get encrypted as well and Amazon wouldn't know where to direct incoming traffic w/o using unique IPs.