# HNOPS01-BP01 Have a team responsible for operating the hybrid networking environment
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 **Desired outcome:** Create a specialized group that handles the complexities of hybrid network architectures. This team effectively designs, implements, and manages network infrastructure that spans both on-premises and cloud environments, while maintaining consistent operations and standardized practices. 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice**: 
+  Enhances network reliability and performance through team expertise 
+  Focused approach leads to: 
  +  Faster incident response times 
  +  Reduced downtime 
  +  Efficient resource utilization 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** High 

## Implementation guidance
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+  The core networking team should include specialists for both cloud and on-premises networking, with well-defined escalation paths and on-call rotations. 
+  Skills and training are crucial components, requiring investment in networking related certifications and maintaining expertise in on-premises networking technologies. 
+  The team should develop strong capabilities in automation and infrastructure as code, while staying current with the latest hybrid networking best practices. 

## 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).