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Patrick

@PatrickJD·Bay Area, CA·Joined September 2020

Sr. Solutions Architect @AWS | AI Agents, security, cloud architecture for commercial customers

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Enterprise Solutions Architect @AWS. Writing about production-tested cloud patterns. Started with a Tandy 2000, still figuring things out.

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Cloud CTRLblog.patrickjduffy.net7 posts

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Enterprise Solutions Architect @AWS. Writing about production-tested cloud patterns. Started with a Tandy 2000, still figuring things out.

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Patrick's blogs

Cloud CTRLblog.patrickjduffy.net7 posts

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PPatrickinblog.patrickjduffy.net·Jul 24 · 8 min read

Expert Advisor Agents: AI Sparring Partners Built from Real Frameworks

"What happens when DynamoDB throttles during a flash sale? Your cart service and catalog share a table. One hot partition and both go down. What's the blast radius?" "You have SQS between checkout and

PPatrickinblog.patrickjduffy.net·Apr 30 · 18 min read

How to Get the Most Out of Amazon Quick Desktop

Updated May 2026: Added three new principles (6, 7, 8) based on patterns that emerged after several weeks of daily use. I've been using the Amazon Quick desktop app as my primary work interface for a

PPatrickinblog.patrickjduffy.net·Apr 6 · 6 min read

Building a Guardrail System for Kiro

AI coding agents can write code, run shell commands, and modify your file system. That's the value proposition. It's also the risk surface. Kiro CLI supports hooks — scripts that intercept agent actio

PPatrickinblog.patrickjduffy.net·Apr 2 · 6 min read

The Kiro CLI Flywheel: Teaching your AI agent from its own mistakes

Every time you correct your AI coding agent, you're generating training data, but are you just throwing it away? "You need to run CLI commands non-interactively." "Try again but split it into smaller

PPatrickinblog.patrickjduffy.net·Apr 1 · 9 min read

Your AWS management account is running workloads — here's how to fix it

Here's a pattern I keep running into: a company started with a single AWS account years ago, deployed their production workloads there, and eventually created an organization around it. That original