EC2 is the best you can get at the moment in my opinion. I guess it's time to learn some *nix! It's not that hard, really.

And for databases, the new persistent storage feature (http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?t...) is what you want/need. (still private alpha)

But unless you have a multi gigabyte database, a simple mysqldump and an upload to s3 should do the trick.