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UPDATE (11/13/08): Thank you to everyone for expressing such a great interest in my upcoming Asterisk guide. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get this guide out into the world and as it’s my first ever ‘how-to’ guide, I’ve been tracking statistics, gathering feedback and planning for the next step for the official release of the guide.
I am currently working to finally wrap up this guide. I’m a perfectionist, so I want things to be right. It will include many of your suggestions and answers to common questions such as cost, etc. (As a hint, I hardly ever cross the $75/month mark, which falls right in line with running a small-instance server 24 hours a day). I will not be charging for this guide, so I expect the adoption to be huge (there’s been a surprising interest from companies like Nokia, Lucent and others). I’m excited to provide a resource that will teach fellow technologists and enthusiasts the background details to run Asterisk in the cloud on Amazon EC2. This is the future of telephony, folks!
Thanks again for your support!
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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.
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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
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.