[asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

[Jai Rangi]

Agreed, network will be bottleneck even with ssd  on shared resource. For a stable env having a dedicated hosted server will be the best approach and cheaper too. 

Jai Rangi
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> On Mar 8, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
> 
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> Still a shared resource.  I don't see the benefit.
> 
> Even beyond the shared resource bit, with the kind of IO you are likely to be pushing, you will want a decent NAS with lots of spindles and fibre channel to your hosts.
> 
> j
> 
>> On 03/08/2015 10:51 AM, Jai Rangi wrote:
>> Digital ocean offers ssd on all the virtual machines. Uptime is good. 
>> 
>> Jai Rangi
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>> On Mar 8, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
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>>> Amazon instances are shared resources.  I wouldn't want to count on timing or disk throughput, and you can't just ask them to do "ssd" - its a virtual machine!  500 simultaneous recordings is a hefty load, and I would want to know that the underlying hardware is dedicated to the task.
>>> 
>>> Sure you see lots of posts about hosting asterisk and/or freeswitch on EC2.  I have done it myself and even have some clients doing it now *for proof of concept*.   I've never heard of anyone using it for the kind of load you are talking about.  I'm assuming with such a giant load you are making a decent profit.  Buy some hefty hardware and do the architecture properly.  You can rent half a rack at lots of high end datacenters for less than $1000/month.
>>> 
>>> j
>>> 
>>>> On 03/07/2015 12:43 AM, Amit Patkar wrote:
>>>> Hi Jeff
>>>> 
>>>> Are you aware of any challenges of hosting it on AWS? It will help me to work out alternate plan. Is there any recommendation? Should I split it to multiple instances and balance traffic across multiple small server instances? I can use Kamailio to balance traffic.
>>>> 
>>>> I see many posts referring to AWS deployment. Please help me to choose AWS server instance.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>> Amit Patkar
>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/7/2015 12:19 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why use Amazon?  With that kind of load I would want dedicated servers.  Call Rackspace or Softlayer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> j
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 03/06/2015 11:59 AM, Amit Patkar wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I plan to host Asterisk instances on AWS/EC2 servers. 
>>>>>> Requirement is to run asterisk instance with transcoding (g.729 + g.711) and full recording. Number of concurrent calls expected are 500+. 2 instances will be configured for 100% redundancy. Heart beat will be used to determine active instance.
>>>>>> How should I choose EC2 instance?
>>>>>> How many vCPU, RAM should be selected? I am assuming that server with ssd is required as all 500+ calls needs to be recorded.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Amit Patkar
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