Amazon filed a noncompete lawsuit against another cloud VP after he took a job at Google Cloud (AMZN, GOOG)

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• Amazon filed a noncompete lawsuit in May against Brian Hall, a former cloud marketing vice president who took a similar job at Google Cloud.
• The company argues Hall's move places its confidential information at risk.
• Hall, the former VP, denied the allegations in a filing made on Monday, and is asking for the contract to be declared "unenforceable" by the court.
• Hall also says that he was led to believe that his noncompete agreement would not be enforced, and that his former boss at AWS was able to take a C-level job at Oracle without being subject to a similar lawsuit. 
• It's the latest noncompete lawsuit Amazon has filed seeking to block or modify a former AWS employee's new job with a competitor.
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Amazon is suing Brian Hall, a former vice president of cloud marketing within its Amazon Web Services unit, over allegations that he violated the terms of a noncompete agreement by taking a similar job at Google Cloud. GeekWire first reported on the lawsuit.

Amazon filed the lawsuit in Seattle on May 18, seeking to enforce a noncompete agreement meant to essentially force Hall not to work for a competitor for 18 months after leaving Amazon, according to court filings viewed by Business Insider. In the filing, Amazon says that Hall's move to Google places its confidential information at risk. 

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