# Prepare
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 Many operational issues can be avoided by following best practices when designing the workload, and fixes are less expensive to implement in design phases rather than in production. 

 Assessing and understanding the state of your network and available solutions helps to establish your hybrid networking capabilities and understand solutions for establishing your hybrid networking capabilities. 


| HNOPS02: How do you ensure efficient IP address allocation across your cloud network and on-premises networks? | 
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 Understanding your hybrid workload requirements helps with appropriate IP addressing needs. It enables efficient routing structure where you can summarize routes based on a network boundary. Well summarized CIDR ranges can also help with security and firewall configuration.  

**Topics**
+ [HNOPS02-BP01 Use IP address management tool](hnops02-bp01.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Well-Architected. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wellarchitected` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).