[asterisk-users] Asterisk & EC2

[Eric Chamberlain]

On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Aryan Ameri wrote:

>
> 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.

Aryan,

The original Feodra 8 image came from the Amazon EC2 team, they  
optimized it to run in EC2.  I chose the Amazon fc8 image, because I'm  
not comfortable getting OS images from third-parties.  When Amazon  
releases new images, I'll update the guide.  You might want to  
consider installing fc8 then upgrading to a newer release.

To build DAHDI kernel modules, all you have to do is setup your OS of  
choice to use a build environment that matches the Amazon kernel you  
are using.


>
>
> 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.

Latency is pretty route specific.  Amazon has good bandwidth, but I  
would avoid proxying media if possible.

We haven't had any reliability problems with EC2 hosting our Asterisk  
real-time application servers.

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