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  1. 2020

    Amazon sues former executive over Google Cloud role

    Lawsuit filed

    Amazon filed a lawsuit against former AWS marketing vice president Brian Hall, alleging that he violated a noncompete agreement after taking a role at Google Cloud. Amazon asked the court to prevent Hall from working at Google for the agreement’s 18-month duration; Hall challenged the clause’s enforceability.

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    • Amazon.com Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Brian Hall, a former vice president of product marketing at Amazon Web Services Inc., alleging that he has violated the terms of a noncompete agreement after taking up a new role at Google Cloud, one of the company’s main competitors.
    • Amazon has asked the court to issue an injunction preventing Hall from taking up employment with Google for the 18-month duration of the noncompete clause in his contract with the company.
    • Hall "helped develop and knows the entire confidential Amazon cloud product roadmap for 2020-21," Amazon said in its lawsuit, filed on May 18.
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