This whitepaper is for historical reference only. Some content might be outdated and some links might not be available. # Overview Connecting the underlying infrastructure is an essential piece of every workload running on your environment. This makes a redundant, highly available, and fault tolerant network architecture one of the top priorities for every organization. Every workload you run in the cloud or within an on-premises environment requires connectivity between different resources. For example, servers, firewalls, edge routers, gateways and more. Having a strong networking foundation and planning ahead on the underlying network helps organizations to deploy, manage, and establish controls on the network. Networking plays a critical role in the way organizations address their growing infrastructure needs, regional expansions, and redundancy plans. You can design, configure, and manage a cloud network to establish connectivity between your cloud, on-premises, and hybrid workloads. ## See also * **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Whitepapers. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query whitepapers` — 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).