title: beginners guide to Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, EBS etc)
body: <p>Ive been delving into the world of AWS and, with very little server management experience under my belt, I'm quickly getting lost!</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking at creating a system that uses Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, EC2, RDS, S3 (possibly with CloudFront as well) so I can host a user generated content website that also streams video.</p>
  
  <p>So Ive been looking at the following books:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Host-Your-Web-Site-Cloud/dp/0980576830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326198073&amp;sr=8-1">Host Your Web Site On The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Amazon-Web-Services-SimpleDB/dp/0596515812/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326198095&amp;sr=8-3">Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Amazon-EC2-Applications-Infrastructure/dp/1449393683/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326198095&amp;sr=8-1">Programming Amazon EC2: Run Applications on Amazon's Infrastructure with EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, and Other Services</a></p>
  
  <p>If I had to go for one of these what would you recommend?</p>
  
  <p>Most importantly are there any resources you can recommend for a newbie like myself to quickly learn and understand the nuances to AWS?</p>
  
  <p>TIA</p>