[asterisk-users] Asterisk on EC2 cloud computing - price assumptions - your brain needed

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:59:50AM -0800, John Todd wrote:
> 
> I've been involved with getting better data for running Asterisk on  
> the Amazon EC2 cloud computing system.  Here are some calculations  
> I've made on costs based on current published prices on Amazon's  
> system.  Feel free to tell me that I'm wrong with these calculations -  
> but be specific if you find any problems, as I suspect others may glom  
> onto these figures as gospel and I'd hate to have the wrong data in  
> there.
> 
>    http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/misc/amazon-ec2.xls
> 
> The net of my calculations is that a small instance of 20 users in a  
> standard office environment would cost about $75 per month, which when  
> compared to running a server in-house works out to be (raw cost, not  
> including admin time and not discounting out-of-office bandwidth) only  
> $38.56 more.  Very interesting.

For 20$ or slightly more you can rent a Xen or OpenVZ virtual host which
will probably do as well.

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