Thousands of readers worldwide have relied on 10 Minutes: Asterisk PBX on Amazon EC2 to configure and install the world’s most popular open-source PBX in the cloud in a snap! New for 2012 is a FREE PDF and fresh look.
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Ciao!
Cool work!
But plase take care of avoiding spaces in commands like
cd / mnt
./ config
etc… maybe space is not there, but while reading it seems like it is…
Hack on!
Cheers!
Guide readers:
Thank you so much for your support. It has been refreshed for 2011 after being neglected for three years. More updates are forthcoming in 2011.
Again, thanks for your support. I’ll be hanging around here more frequently.
Hi Ron,
I was conducting a research on hosting Asterisk for calling card on EC2 and came across your details about it. Very insteresting and glad I came across it. We are looking at deploying about 250 – 1000 SIP ports for calling card and would like to know if you could be of setup assistance for the project or know someone we can work with to guide us through the complete setup. We budget for the project and ready to move. Please help. Thanks.
BO Olabode
602-309-8525
hello lewis,
We are presently running our asterisk based servers in data center farms,
i am not clear about few things
i)what is the meaning of instance in EC2 terminology?
ii)because our requirement is purely relatime meadia how well this EC2 supports it
Thanks and regards
srinivas
Any recommendations on the kernel optimization for handling Asterisk/VoIP well on EC2?
Jason,
I haven’t really delved into kernel optimizations on EC2 yet, so I’m not sure. Sorry.
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Cool job, Ron!
In your final version, could you maybe also add a section on how to make Asterisk register with some external VoIP provider, so that it’s possible to dial out to talk to mobile phone users, and POTS users?
Cheers,
Alex
I will add this in a future update. Thanks for your support!
FreeSWITCH is a lot better than Asterisk and works in EC2.
Check it out here: http://freeswitch.org/
Dear Ronald,
Your post really helps us all. I have successfully configured and ran asterisk in my EC2 instance. Thanks for your help. But i got stuck again as i want some interaction with some simpleDB in spite of MySQL and i also want to store voice files into S3 storage in spite of storing into the local system. Please tell me some pointers which can help me or give me some advice.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Ronald, some time ago I’ve read your tutorial on running Asterisk over the EC2 grid:
technically very nice!
But I’ve done some homework and I wonder if the EC2 cpu price is worth
compared to a dedicated server / guaranteed vps.
Am I wrong ?
I’m not familiar with EC2′s pricing model. Can you give us estimates of how much using Asterisk with it would cost, based on various usages? (I’m only interested in low usage as an alternative to hosting my home Asterisk elsewhere, but others might find estimates for other usage patterns helpful.)
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Good job Ron, this is the coolest thing I have read today or even possibly this week. Do you have any suggestions on websites that describe getting started with EC2? I’m not groking Amazon’s documentation.