Google Completes Acquisition of Wiz in Historic $32 Billion Deal

Google has officially closed its $32 billion all-cash acquisition of Wiz, the Israeli cloud and AI security platform, marking the largest deal in Google’s history and a landmark moment for the global cybersecurity industry. The Wiz team will join Google Cloud while retaining its brand and continuing to support customers across all major cloud environments.

The deal’s completion follows a year-long regulatory and strategic journey. Google first attempted to acquire Wiz in 2024 with a $23 billion offer, which Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport declined, believing the company had far greater growth potential. Revised acquisition talks resumed in early 2025, culminating in a formal agreement announced in March 2025.

The deal subsequently cleared regulatory approvals from the U.S. Department of Justice in October 2025, followed by the European Union and Australia in February 2026, and Singapore and Japan in March 2026. The $32 billion price tag dwarfs Google’s previous record acquisition — the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012.

Why Wiz Matters for Cloud Security

Wiz had already established itself as a dominant force in cloud security before the acquisition closed, crossing $1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2025, with an anticipated growth rate of 40% in 2026.

Notably, half of the Fortune 100 companies are existing Wiz customers. The platform’s core strength lies in its ability to connect code, cloud, and runtime into a single shared security context, giving organizations a unified view of how applications are built, deployed, and operated across complex multicloud environments.

The acquisition is Google’s direct response to a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape shaped by AI adoption and multicloud complexity.

As organizations accelerate their migration of business-critical workloads to multiple cloud providers, threat actors are simultaneously leveraging AI to increase the speed and sophistication of their attacks.

Wiz has expanded its platform significantly over the past year to address AI-specific threats, adding capabilities that give organizations visibility into AI application usage, prevent AI-native risks, and protect AI workloads at runtime.

What the Combined Platform Delivers

Together, Google Cloud and Wiz will offer an integrated, AI-powered cybersecurity platform that merges Google’s threat intelligence and security operations expertise with Wiz’s cloud-native security capabilities. Key benefits for customers include:

• Unified security platform combining Wiz’s Cloud Security Platform with Google Security Operations to secure cloud-native applications from development through runtime
• AI-driven threat intelligence powered by Google’s Mandiant Consulting and Gemini AI model for accelerated threat hunting and remediation
• Multicloud coverage with Wiz products continues to support Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Platform
• New threat protection targeting attacks created by AI models and those targeting AI systems directly
• Proactive defense validation through continuous testing and measurement of security control effectiveness

Despite joining Google Cloud, Wiz will remain a genuinely multi-cloud security platform. Google has committed to keeping Wiz’s services fully available to customers on competing cloud platforms, a strategic decision designed to win enterprise trust and expand the addressable market for cloud security services.

Google Cloud will also continue to partner with third-party security providers through its Marketplace, preserving customer choice across the broader security ecosystem.

This acquisition positions Google as a dominant force in cloud and AI security at a time when cyber threats are growing in both frequency and impact, giving enterprises a powerful, unified defense across their entire digital infrastructure.

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