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Setup a Cloud Phone System on AWS

One of the methods that we used when we want to install a free phone system on AWS is:


•Create a free AWS account free tier (free for the first year).
•Create a PBX account like 3CX account also its free for the first year.

  1. First we create a free AWS account from this link

https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=*all&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=*all

and when it finish remember the account was free for 12 months and after that some components will always free you must enter your credit card information and don’t be scary the account is free they only hold 1$ for 3-5 days to verify your identity, and for support for the plan you must choose Basic support-free.
After that the account become ready.

2.In the beginning we must go to IAM Identity and Access Management and create a user from add user bottom

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and input the user name we want, and select Programmatic access from AWS credential type

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and then click next and select attaching existing policies directly and select to this user access these policies:

  • AmazonEC2FullAccess
  • ServiceQuotasReadOnlyAccess

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Then press next and next and create user (finish) and you must download the.csv file that contain Access key ID and Secret access key.

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3.Create key pair in EC2 filed
rename it and choose pem file format the file automatically will be download

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4.Go to AWS Marketplace
and go to Discover products and search for Debian 10

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and choose continuo to subscribe (its free) and Accept Terms and click on Continue to Configuration

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and you must name the EC2 Instance “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Instance “and choose the EC2 type the free tire (like T2.micro) and choose the Key pair in node 3 wait until the installation complete.

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5.Go to one of PBX site like 3CX site for example and create a free user for 1 year and confirm your email.

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We will receive a message with link, we should register our information like phone number and create a password
and then we must go to My Subscription in portal link and follow the steps bellow:

Step 1 choose Self host in your Cloud.

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Step 2 select country, time zone and language.

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Step 3 choose your extension length.

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Step choose your Domain.

Step 4 Provider selection select your Cloud
Provider(Amazon–AWS)
and enter the Access key ID and
Secret access key in node number 2,select Region
(same region in AWS you choose)

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Step 5 Provider setting
we must select a unique machine name
same region in our account
select key pair (in node 3 )
select Machine type (the free tire machine )

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step 6 Agree the user agreement

step 7 installation

and your PBX is begin installed ,after the install is finish you will receive an email contain the username and password and all the link for controlling page and installing the software .

6.Finally you can add a number from Extensions or users, we can add users and specific a number to them and give the user their QR code to login from their phones .

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7.The user must install 3CX on their phones and scan their QR code and they can use the program to calling each to others with very clear and good sound.

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