FOOD FOR THOUGHT AWS EC2 Discontinuance Possible

[wardmundy]

jchuby: An upgrade is way down the list. Just follow the upgrade procedure documented above.

 

[gordon]

Was ec2 support discontinued? I had just started planning to move my piaf pbx to ec2 but ran across this post

 

[wardmundy]

Not at the present time. Amazon rates have remained reasonable after the one-year expiration.

 

[Wilbert Zapata]

New Amazon T2.micro instances are half the price of former T1.micro (still available) and have better performance. Only problem is that we cannot evolve T1->T2 so I'm a bit stacked. Any plan to launch a new T2.micro AMI instance? It would be greatly appreciated and, moreover having a new available in Europe.

 

[zaphod2012]

Just a quick set of questions. I have searched, and ultimately found this thread which is a little sparse, but does have some detail.

what I cannot figure out until now -

(1) Is there an officially supported statement as to whether ec2/Amazon is supported for hosting PBXIAF images?
(2) Are the recommended images 64 or 32-bit in nature?
(3) Is there an alternative guide to setting it up from scratch, using CentOS as the guestOS?

Thanks!

 

[wardmundy]

Start here.

 

[wardmundy]

There will be no further work on the Amazon EC2 platform. There are a number of Cloud-based PIAF and Incredible PBX solutions, all of which are cheaper and considerably easier to manage than Amazon EC2. RentPBX is a major corporate sponsor of our projects and offers a $15 a month plan that can't be beat in terms of reliability and performance. Details are available here.

For a VoIP sandbox (where reliability and performance are not your primary concern), there's also Digital Ocean at a cost of under a penny per hour of use. Details here.

 

[zaphod2012]

There will be no further work on the Amazon EC2 platform. There are a number of Cloud-based PIAF and Incredible PBX solutions, all of which are cheaper and considerably easier to manage than Amazon EC2. RentPBX is a major corporate sponsor of our projects and offers a $15 a month plan that can't be beat in terms of reliability and performance. Details are available here.

For a VoIP sandbox (where reliability and performance are not your primary concern), there's also Digital Ocean at a cost of under a penny per hour of use. Details here.

No, excellent details - thanks Ward!

In further research, I checked out RentPBX, and it seems they have several options, of which I'm unsure.

Relevant, then, is this list of summarized versions of PBXIAF on RentPBX:

#1 - 1.7.x.x.x
#2 - 2.0.6.4.4
#3 - 3.6.5.x.x - "Build your own - SC Base"
#4 - Ver Unknown - "PBX In a Flash Incredible PBX" With Ubuntu 14.4

Questions, then:

(1) Are the first three CentOS variants?
(2) Is there a benefit from building my own?
(3) Are these 32 or 64bit VM's?

And finally - which would you recommend for a very small international consulting company with super minimal requirements for the first 6 months?

Thanks!

 

[wardmundy]

Either of the bottom two would serve you well. The Incredible PBX build has the advantage of having rock-solid security integrated into the platform.