Comments on: Asterisk PBX on Amazon EC2 How-to Guide Almost Complete!

By: Bo Olabode

Bo Olabode — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:02:43 +0000

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

By: srinivas antarvedi

srinivas antarvedi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:10:21 +0000

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

By: Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:29:10 +0000

Jason,

I haven’t really delved into kernel optimizations on EC2 yet, so I’m not sure. Sorry.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:24:58 +0000

Any recommendations on the kernel optimization for handling Asterisk/VoIP well on EC2?

By: Graves On SOHO VoIP » A Talk In The Clouds: Asterisk on EC2

Graves On SOHO VoIP » A Talk In The Clouds: Asterisk on EC2 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:02:48 +0000

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By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:59:36 +0000

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

By: Diego Viola

Diego Viola — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:12:54 +0000

FreeSWITCH is a lot better than Asterisk and works in EC2.

Check it out here: http://freeswitch.org/

By: Auro

Auro — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:07:05 +0000

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.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:10:56 +0000

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 ?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:19:35 +0000

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.)

By: How to get Asterisk PBX running on your Amazon EC2 Setup.

How to get Asterisk PBX running on your Amazon EC2 Setup. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:28:42 +0000

[...] To view and download this guide, please visit http://ronaldlewis.com/2008/07/08/asterisk-pbx-on-amazon-ec2-how-to-guide-almost-complete/ [...]

By: Asterisk In Amazon’s Corner Of The Cloud « Clearing My Head

Asterisk In Amazon’s Corner Of The Cloud « Clearing My Head — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:25:08 +0000

[...] Lewis has recently posted to the Asterisk Users List an announcment with respect to a preview of a guide for using Asterisk on the Amazon EC2 service. This is extemely interesting. It gives a new dimension to the concept of “Hosted [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:22:30 +0000

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.