Proton VPN has released a native app for Amazon’s Vega OS, the operating system now running on newer Fire TV Stick models.
Amazon introduced Vega OS with the Fire TV Stick Select in late 2025, replacing the Android-based Fire OS that had powered its streaming devices for years.
The switch was not a simple software update. Every app on the platform, VPNs included, had to be rebuilt from the ground up to work with the new Linux-based system, and Amazon has also used the change to make it harder to sideload apps that were not approved for its store, a move widely read as an attempt to clamp down on illegal streaming setups.
That rebuild left VPN providers scrambling in the months after the Fire TV Stick Select launched. NordVPN and IPVanish were the first to get working Vega OS apps live, both within weeks of the device going on sale.
Surfshark followed later, and ExpressVPN added support more recently still. Proton VPN’s app, confirmed this week, brings most of the well-known consumer VPN brands up to date on the new platform, roughly a year after Vega OS first appeared.
The Proton VPN app can be downloaded directly through the Fire TV Stick’s own store rather than requiring a sideload or a router-level workaround, and offers the usual core features of IP masking and access to geo-restricted streaming libraries.
For a provider that has built its reputation on privacy rather than streaming, native support on one of the most widely used streaming devices in UK homes is a notable expansion of its reach.
The practical effect for UK viewers is that running a VPN on a Fire TV Stick is becoming far less fiddly than it used to be.
Rather than configuring a VPN at router level, or relying on unofficial app installs that Vega OS is specifically designed to block, users can now install a proper app straight onto the device for several major providers.
VPNCompare’s guide to the best VPN for Amazon Fire TV Stick covers how the leading options compare once installed.
ExpressVPN, which also added native Vega OS support in recent months, remains VPNCompare’s top recommendation for anyone streaming on a Fire TV Stick, largely thanks to its consistent performance with services such as BBC iPlayer and Netflix.
Full details of its features are covered in VPNCompare’s ExpressVPN review.
Proton VPN has not published pricing specific to the Vega OS release, and its app is expected to work with the same subscription tiers used across its other platforms. More detail on the provider’s wider feature set is available in VPNCompare’s Proton VPN review.
Not every provider has caught up. Private Internet Access and CyberGhost have yet to confirm native Vega OS apps, meaning their users on newer Fire TV Stick models will likely still need a router-based VPN setup or another workaround for the time being.
Given how quickly other providers have moved to fill the gap over the past year, further announcements from the remaining holdouts would not be a surprise.
