Businesses and organizations often have a mix of cloud, on-premises, and edge computing infrastructure. A hybrid cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers IT resources like compute, storage, databases, and more, through an integration of AWS Cloud services with on-premises and edge infrastructure. Hybrid cloud architectures help organizations integrate their on-premises and cloud operations to support a broad spectrum of hybrid cloud use cases, often using a common set of services, tools, and interfaces. This whitepaper outlines major use cases, defines hybrid architectural tenets, describes an implementation framework, and provides AWS solutions to guide you in creating a hybrid cloud strategy, and to design and implement a hybrid cloud environment with AWS.