[asterisk-users] Asterisk & EC2

[M Hulber]

I followed the Ronald Lewis instructions and was able to get EC2 to run 
Asterisk.  I was able to use IAX2 so I'm not sure what you are saying.  
You should also be able to build dahdi but of course you won't have any 
physical devices in the machine.  I think for meet-me dahdi provides a 
software timer.

I have not tested it enough to know about issues with quality but the 
first reference uses a particular kernel to help avoid local timing 
issues with the VM.

Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Sun Apr 26 2009 02:48:13 GMT+1000 (EST) Kai-Uwe Jensen <kujensen at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>   
>> There's a boat-load of articles on the web with step-by-step guidance. 
>> The first I became aware of was 
>> http://ronaldlewis.com/asterisk-pbx-on-amazon-ec2-how-to-guide-almost-complete/ 
>> , another good one is http://voxilla.com/2009/2/13/asterisk-amazon-ec2-1178
>>
>> Google is your friend.
>>     
>
>
> Thanks. Google has not been my friend, that's why I'm asking this mailing list.
>
> The first guide that you link to, is by a guy who obviously doesn't know why 
> dahdi/zaptel are important, and completely ignores it, which means, no IAX2 or 
> meet-me.
>
> The second one, is built on a custom Fedora 8 image. The steps are not 
> repeatable on any other distro, not even a stock official Fedora 8 one. Fedora 
> 8 itself is long EOLed and as such, not something I'd want to use on a 
> production server. Dahdi compilation as described on that guide doesn't work 
> on CentOS or Ubuntu or Debian.
>
> Besides, I asked about anecdotal usage experiences running Asterisk on EC2. 
> About whether latency is an issue if extensions are outside the EC2 
> availability zone. About reliability of EC2 when used to host a real-time 
> application server. Not just an installation guideline.
>
> It seems like no one is using Asterisk on EC2 for a production environment.
>
> Cheers
>   

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