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Major websites and apps were down for millions of people as the Amazon Web Services outage continues.

Plus, big price increases for home and auto insurance have some states considering price caps.

That's a balanced regulator say they're trying to draw, which is very difficult.

So protecting policyholders without leading to a California-style

exodus of insurers. And a report of strong iPhone sales sent Apple stock to a new high.

It's Monday, October 20th. I'm Alex Oslo for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition

of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

Amazon was working to fully restore service more than 12 hours after a wide-ranging internet outage began.

Millions of websites and platforms rely on Amazon Web Services for cloud computing,

and problems with its network affect the wider internet.

Disruptions were reported for a range of companies,

from Facebook and Snapchat to financial services companies,

including Fidelity and Venmo, to United Airlines, to Amazon's own shopping site.

The Wall Street Journal was one of several media organizations feeling the impact today,

and for me personally, my attempt to book some holiday travel did not work.

The outage began around 3 a.m. Eastern time after an error in a technical update to a widely used database service

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