Patrick

@PatrickJD

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

Bay Area, CAJoined September 2020

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

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PPatrickblog.patrickjduffy.netApr 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

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PPatrickblog.patrickjduffy.netApr 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

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PPatrickblog.patrickjduffy.netApr 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

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PPatrickblog.patrickjduffy.netApr 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

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PPatrickblog.patrickjduffy.netSep 29, 2020 · 6 min read

Managing IAM Identities for People

Author Edit: This approach is wildly outdated now, you should use IAM Identity Center instead. Understanding IAM security models is one of the most important aspects of effectively and safely managin

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How to Get the Most Out of Amazon Quick Desktop

Building a Guardrail System for Kiro

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

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

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How to Get the Most Out of Amazon Quick Desktop

Building a Guardrail System for Kiro

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

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

Managing IAM Identities for People