The drive for agile business led F5 Networks to offer its functions and services through the Amazon Marketplace, Senior Technical Marketing Manager Nathan Pierce told hosts John Furrier and Marc Farley on theCUBE during AWS Summit 2015 in San Francisco.

“Our customers have been looking to take advantage of cloud and these utility models for quite some time,” Pierce said. “But they’re wanting to take that policy they have defined on their F5 equipment to make sure their applications are always fast, highly available, and secure. They wanted to bring that in the cloud with them, so being available via Amazon’s marketplace, we’re able to address that for our customers.”

Pierce explained that the flexibility provided by cloud and platforms like Amazon Marketplace are changing the dynamic of networking. “There’s a lot of overlap now between the application architect and the network architect,” Pierce said.

When asked about the current uses of containers in virtualization, Pierce explained that the ability to “spin-and-kill” using containers needs to be supported by the entire data center. “The speed at which [containerization] can actually throw out a new platform and a stack on top of it is amazing,” Pierce said. “But for that to really work, you can’t just have that in your server tier. The entire data center needs to be able to handle that spin-and-kill scenario.”

When Marc Farley asked how data centers should handle jumping back and forth in scale using containers, Pierce laughed. “APIs. You do not want people managing that change at keyboards.” He explained that in points of failure, “it’s often at the keyboard.”

Watch the full interview with Pierce here, and be sure to check out more interviews from AWS Summit on theCUBE.