VICIdial Cloud Deployment: AWS, GCP & DigitalOcean

Last updated: March 2026 | Reading time: ~18 minutes Every VICIdial guide assumes you have a rack, a static IP, and a data center contract. That made sense in 2014. In 2026, the majority of new VICIdial deployments we see at ViciStack start with the same question: can I run this in the cloud? The short answer is yes. The longer answer is yes, but VICIdial and cloud infrastructure have fundamentally different assumptions about networking, CPU scheduling, and storage I/O that you need to understand before you spin up an EC2 instance and wonder why half your calls have one-way audio. This guide covers the real-world deployment of VICIdial on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and DigitalOcean. We are not going to rehash the basic installation steps --- that guide exists and it is comprehensive. What we are covering here is everything that changes when your VICIdial server runs on a hypervisor in someone else's data center instead of on bare metal you control. The pragmatic alternative: ViciStack