@typesfast: YC companies selling baby Patriot missiles for your house
Summary
A YC-backed startup pitches 'Air Defense as a Service' — autonomous interceptor boxes to protect data centers from drone attacks, referencing an incident where drones took AWS data centers offline.
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YC companies selling baby Patriot missiles for your house
Jasper Lortije (@JasperLort): AIR DEFENSE AS A SERVICE.
In March, drones took three AWS data centers offline in the Middle East and a dozen core cloud services with them. Amazon lost 200 million USD in one day.
We build the box that stops it.
Containerized cells of autonomous interceptors, parked next to
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