This document discusses how the traditional IT model of maintaining on-premise infrastructure is costly and lacks agility, taking resources away from innovation. It notes that over 2/3 of IT budgets go to keeping existing systems running. The document promotes moving to AWS's cloud computing model which allows companies to focus resources on differentiation, reduce costs, improve security, and innovate faster by removing the burden of managing infrastructure. It provides examples of large companies using AWS to lower costs, improve agility and speed of development.