India, Oct. 27 -- An empty page, or rather an empty entry, resulted in a massive outage in the cloud services of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It implied that the world's famous, and not-so-famous, apps and services were down, people could not order food or other items, banking and security systems were shut, and hospitals were in disarray. The net result was a loss of hundreds of billions of dollars across the globe, and across sectors. "We apologise for the impact this event caused our customers. We know this event impacted many customers in significant ways. We will do everything we can to learn from this event, and use it to improve our availability even further," stated AWS in a post-mortem statement. The event, as AWS dubs it, resulted...