Amazon and Google wrestle over corporate secrets in cloud employment dispute

Grazed from GeekWire. Author: Todd Bishop.

Google is seeking to formally intervene in a lawsuit filed by Amazon against a former Amazon Web Services employee who left the Seattle company and took a job with Google’s cloud computing division. The move by Google is revealed in a new filing in King County Superior Court in Seattle. By intervening in the case, Google says it wants to limit what it describes as an attempt by Amazon to use the legal discovery process to obtain “highly confidential information pertaining to Google’s cloud computing business.”

Amazon, in turn, says its own confidential information is at risk as a result of Google hiring the former Amazon Web Services strategic partnerships manager, Zoltan Szabadi, for a job with Google Cloud Platform. Amazon’s suit was filed against Szabadi in June, seeking to enforce the terms of his standard non-compete agreement with Amazon…

The suit underscores the growing rivalry between Amazon and Google in the expanding market for cloud computing services. Amazon is seeking to prevent Szabadi from selling or marketing cloud computing services at Google for 18 months, under terms of the non-compete provision…

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