Gabriel Koo

Gabriel Koo @gabrielkoo

About: I am a Hong Kong based cloud native software engineer in the InsurTech industry focusing on DevOps and Security who always think about the worse case scenarios. Recently hacking on GenAI tools too.

Location:
Hong Kong
Joined:
Aug 25, 2022

Gabriel Koo
articles - 15 total

Why I Built a Web UI for Amazon Q Developer CLI (And How I Vibe-Coded It)

🚀 Beyond the Console: Why I Built a Web UI for the Amazon Q Developer CLI Amazon Q is a...

Learn More 5 1Jun 26

Building A Plasma Sword Fighter Game with Amazon Q CLI

As a DevSecOps engineer, my daily grind usually involves CI/CD pipelines, security audits, and...

Learn More 2 0Jun 18

Your Next Resume Could be More Than a PDF — Say NotebookLM

For decades, the professional calling card has been a static document: the resume or the CV. We spend...

Learn More 2 1Jun 15

🚀 Streamline Secure, Self‑Service Developer Operations with AWS SSM Automation Runbooks 🎉

🎉 Dev Efficiency vs Deployment Freeze Ever wished you could just let your fellow software...

Learn More 3 0May 26

Phantom DNS Query to GCP VM Metadata Service in My AWS Workload 👻 — Revealed by Route 53 Resolver Logging 🔍

I Found Suspicious DNS Calls on AWS I was debugging flaky outbound calls from an AWS...

Learn More 1 0Apr 27

Faster AWS Console Navigation with Chrome Site Search

TLDR aws + [TAB] + ec2 + [ENTER] is all you need. No need to enter the entire AWS Console...

Learn More 6 0Feb 11

Scale a Stateful Streamlit Chatbot with AWS ECS and EFS

You built a great Streamlit application. Everything is working well locally when your boss...

Learn More 4 0Jan 20

Use Amazon Bedrock Models with OpenAI SDKs with a Serverless Proxy Endpoint - Without Fixed Cost!

Why bedrock-access-gateway-function-url This article is for GenAI builders who cares for...

Learn More 21 1Jan 2

Get Phished by a Public AWS Systems Manager Automation Document

[Update 2025-01-09] Thanks Wiz.io for featuring this as a new phishing technique! ...

Learn More 11 0Dec 22 '24

Open Unclickable Instagram Post Description Links with AWS Lambda and iOS Shortcuts

Extracting Links from Instagram Posts Made Easy with AWS Lambda Have you ever tried to...

Learn More 3 0Nov 3 '24

I bought us-east-1.com: A Look at Security, DNS Traffic, and Protecting AWS Users

When people think about the term "us-east-1", they often think of AWS's very data center region that...

Learn More 45 5Oct 27 '24

Deep Linking AWS Console with all your AWS IAM Identity Center Roles

Simplifying AWS IAM Identity Center Role Management As an AWS Community Builder, I'm...

Learn More 5 4Aug 17 '24

`safeaws` checks your AWS CLI commands before they are run

As a heavy AWS user, you probably know the struggle of needing to edit an existing AWS resource....

Learn More 2 0Apr 13 '24

Enhance Your Slack Workspace with a user-trainable ChatGPT-Integrated FAQ Bot

Update (2024-09-28) If you want a more powerful version that utilized Amazon Bedrock, as...

Learn More 5 0Apr 26 '23

Do not use default SAM CloudFormation Role for Production

AWS CI/CD tools are simply cool, as they allow you to deploy your application within a few clicks,...

Learn More 8 1Sep 13 '22