Urgent move needed to Amazon EC2/S3

My developer and I have a PHP/MYSQL application that we need to move to Amazon EC2/S3 services. This is an urgent project, but I want to make sure I hire a consultant who has experience with AWS. Cookie cutter responses will be ignored. Please describe your experience with EC2/S3 in your response. My developer has spent a few hours trying to get EC2/S3 properly configured, but we need to bring in an expert to help finish the job. You will be working closely with my developer and training him so that he can maintain the host himself. My budget is on the low end of this range. Payment happens after the application is installed on Amazon EC2/S3.