anyone tried the tarzan framework for all amazon webservices

[eluser]slowgary[/eluser]
I've been recently looking into EC2, but it's all martian to me. I'm used to LAMP shared hosting and cPanel, but could get by with just LAMP + FTP (and then I'd probably install phpMyAdmin).

Do any of you guys know of any good resources for a noob like me to ease my way in to understanding EC2 (or whatever else I might need to run PHP/MySQL apps)? Thanks.

I'm looking at Tarzan now, but it's still out of my league (unless I'm missing something big).