FireOS is the preferred OS for the Amazon Fire. It’s probably the basis for any number of IoT devices at Amazon because it makes good business sense although not proven.

There are plenty of blog posts out there that explain how to configure an Amazon Fire VPN, however, most are wrong because they show screenshots from a version that is long gone. (see “Wireless & VPN”).

“The Amazon Fire tablet supports PPTP, L2TP, and IPSec protocols but not something like OpenVPN.”

Neither Fire OS 7x nor 8x has an internal VPN tool. There is a hint that one can load a VPN certificate file from the SD card, however, not sure what sort of file that is and no online docs support the effort.

One thing that is clear is that there is no reason that Amazon would want the user to install a VPN because that might allow the user to exploit multi-media security limits by geo-tagging IPs.

I’ve installed OpenVPN onto the FireOS devices and that works. Thankfully it’s from the source. But to what end? I need a good SSH client and a keyboard would be great although there are some bluetooth options… most suck. Unfortunately there are no SSH clients that are worth FREE or even a donation.