Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services. Amazon announced the Amazon Web Services GovCloud, a service that complies with the International Traffic in Arms Regulation. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the U.S. Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board are two federal agencies that already use AWS. Amazon has largely stayed out of the battle between Microsoft and Google for government cloud services, which are in heated competition to offer hosted e-mail and other enterprise services to government agencies.”]