Asterisk on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 virtual computing environment allows you to launch instances with viariety of operating systems, manage network permisions, etc through web services API. Voxilla made a two part article about how to set up Asterisk on Amazon's computing environment.

http://voxilla.com/2009/02/12/amazon-ec2-voip-1096

The first part of the article is an introduction to EC2.

http://voxilla.com/2009/02/13/asterisk-amazon-ec2-1178

The second part is a step by step tutorial that describes how to sign up, configuring and starting the EC2 instance, configuring network settings and installing Asterisk.