The Vodia Cloud phone system on AWS Marketplace

Are you looking for a cloud phone system that's easy to deploy and manage? Look no further than the Vodia PBX, now available on AWS Marketplace.

The Vodia PBX is a versatile, feature-rich phone system designed to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. With the Vodia PBX, you can easily manage your phone system from anywhere, with a user-friendly web interface that allows you to configure and customize your system to meet your unique requirements.

With the availability of the Vodia PBX on AWS Marketplace, deploying your phone system in the cloud has never been easier. Whether you're a small business looking for a cost-effective phone solution or a large enterprise in need of a scalable and reliable phone system, the Vodia PBX on AWS Marketplace can meet your needs.

Benefits of the Vodia PBX on AWS Marketplace:

• Easy to deploy: The Vodia PBX can be deployed on AWS Marketplace in just a few clicks, making it easy to get up and running quickly.
• Scalable: With the Vodia PBX on AWS Marketplace, you can easily scale your phone system to meet the needs of your growing business.
• Reliable: AWS Marketplace provides a reliable and secure platform for hosting your phone system; it ensures your system is always up and running when you need it.
• Flexible: With the Vodia PBX on AWS Marketplace, you can choose the instance type that best meets your needs, ensuring you have the resources you need to run your phone system.
• Cost-effective: The Vodia PBX on AWS Marketplace provides a cost-effective phone system solution that can help you reduce your telephony costs.

We will go step by step through how to set up the Vodia phone system correctly.

To deploy the Vodia Phone System:

Follow this link AWS marketplace Vodia phone system

Deploying The Vodia Phone System

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Here you can select a Vodia version and the region from which you would like to deploy the system.

Here you can choose from where you want to deploy the phone system - for convenience we have chosen "Launch From Website"

EC2 Instance Type

Here you can choose the instance type on which you would like the phone system to run.

Here you can choose a VPC and Subnet (we are using the default settings here).

Security Group Settings

For this setup, we will use the Vodia default security group that's packaged with the phone system. The default ports are found here.  

Key Pair Settings

For the Key Pair, you can use your existing Key or you can create a new one; if you create a new one, you will have to refresh by pressing on the refresh icon to see your new Key. Assign it and then press launch.

Congratulations

Now that you have successfully launched your Vodia phone system on the AWS marketplace, we will need to log in to the phone system to set up your password. Click on "EC2 Console" to check the information on your Vodia instance; if you are familiar with the EC2 dashboard, it does take a few minutes.

EC2 Dashboard

Below you will see information about your Vodia instance (give your phone system a name, as it's empty by default).

Note: since you are running a phone system you will need an elastic IP address for your EC2 instance

Let's now assign an Elastic IP address to the Vodia phone system. Navigate to  Network & Security > Security Groups and choose Elastic IP, then click on "Allocate Elastic IP address"

Assign an Elastic IP

• Choose your Network Border Group if available, or leave it as default.
• Use Amazon's pool of IPv4 addresses
• Then Allocate

Allocating and assigning the Elastic IP address

Now that you have successfully allocated an Elastic IP address, we can now "Associate the Elastic IP address" to your Vodia phone system

Click on "Actions" and "Associate Elastic IP address" and continue below

Choose instances and type in your instance name or AMI ID, so AWS can associate the instance; with the IP, for private IP, choose the default and allow the IP to be reassociated for future purposes. Press Associate

Logging in to the Vodia phone system

Now that we have associated your Elastic IP for your Vodia  phone system, let's log into the software. Here's how.

in your EC2 dashboard, click on your "Instance ID" to see the instance summary. You should be able to see your new IP address under "Public IPv4 address". Click on the hyperlink "open address"

You will be presented with a "connection is not private" message. Press proceed - later on you can create a DNS entry for your tenant domain. Vodia will create a Let's encrypt certificate, for the server and for the tenants.

Vodia phone system interface

Login into the system for the first time

To log in to the phone system, use the following credentials:

User: ec2 "lowercase"

Password: Your Vodia phone system's EC2 instance ID - you can find this ID in your instance summary

for example, i-05647db1234623c785 should be 19 characters

Once you have logged in successfully you will be presented with the administrator login - you can then create your password for the system.

Licensing the Vodia phone system

To run the phone system you will need a license to activate Vodia. Visit us at https://web.vodia.com/contact

Navigate to General >  License and accept the EULA

License

When you have your license ready, copy and paste it into the activation code and press save.

System management address

The next step is providing a DNS management address for the phone system. From version 69 onwards a DNS management address is reqiured to log in to the Vodia system. Here's an example of how to create an A record with Godaddy.com

https://www.godaddy.com/help/add-an-a-record-19238  Next, type in the DNS address name and save the configuration. Log in to the phone system with your new system DNS address.

Certificates

As you can see below, the Vodia phone system will create a domain certificate for the tenant on the system and for the system server itself. Vodia uses Let's Encrypt to assign the SSL certificates to the tenants (see below for an example). You can check this in system level > Security > Certificates

Security Settings

We will start activating some security features you will use later in this tutorial, navigate to > Security > General

Activate the following settings

• Duration for app pairing barcodes: Set your duration here for pairing the app. This will give the user some time to scan the QR code for the smart app.
• Include the extension password and PIN in the user welcome email: Set your preference  
• Ignore packets that don't match a domain on the system: Can be set [on] only if you have logged in to the system with your management DNS address; if not set to [off]
• Save configuration

Vodia Session Border Controller

Let's take care of the audio settings. The Vodia SBC is built into the software already. T activate this setting, navigate to SIP > Settings under [IP routing list] and set it to "public", all lowercase; this will instruct Vodia to use your EC2 IPV4 public IP. Also, for most of you already familiar with AWS EC2, it's important to have an Elastic IP address for your instance as well. Here's how https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/elastic-ip-addresses-eip.html

Create your first Tenant

• https://doc.vodia.com/docs/domain-overview

Create your first Account

• https://doc.vodia.com/docs/extensions

Create your first Auto Attendant

• https://doc.vodia.com/docs/autoattendants

Create your first Ring group

• https://doc.vodia.com/docs/huntgroups

Create your first Trunk

• https://doc.vodia.com/docs/huntgroups

More useful links below

You can visit our YouTube channel for more tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@vodianetworks2440

Join our community at https://forum.vodia.com/

Need help? Open a ticket with us at https://support.vodia.com/#dashboard