PBX in a Cloud with Amazon EC2

[wardmundy]

A good bit has been written in the last few weeks about using Cloud Computing technology, specifically Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to host Asterisk PBX systems.

This is just a thumbnail post to provide some links to resources. Keep in mind that the Cloud Computing solution is NOT cheap. The entry level pricing for a 24/7 Asterisk server is in the $75 per month range. That's about double to triple the starting price of hosted service from Lylix or Aretta. Keep in mind that the pricing for all of these hosted solutions does NOT include the termination and DID costs from your SIP or IAX provider.

For a good summary of how to compute your actual costs, see this link.

For a couple of different EC2 options, see the following links:

ResVoip EC2 Build 3


Voxilla's FreePBX in a Cloud

 

[Nixi]

I am very interested in taking my Piaf install to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Has anyone done it?

Maybe it has been discussed before but could it be possible to run the install scripts from a plain Centos install? That would make it a lot easier.

My next plan if above is not possible is to try to do a normal install in Vmware and then convert it to the Amazon format (Xen). It would be great though to have an official PIAF template!

Thanks for any input.