Google has finalized its acquisition of Wiz, the Israeli cloud and AI security company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $32 billion. The deal, announced as closed in March 2026, is the largest acquisition in Google’s history and represents a major move by Google Cloud to deepen its capabilities in cloud-native and AI security.
Deal overview
The acquisition brings the Wiz team into Google Cloud while keeping the Wiz brand intact. Google has said Wiz will continue to support customers across major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. The transaction follows earlier acquisition attempts and extended regulatory review across multiple jurisdictions.
Timeline and regulatory approvals
Google first approached Wiz in 2024 with a reported $23 billion offer that Wiz’s leadership declined. Acquisition talks resumed in early 2025, leading to a formal agreement announced in March 2025. The deal cleared a sequence of regulatory reviews: U.S. Department of Justice approval in October 2025, approvals from the European Union and Australia in February 2026, and clearance from Singapore and Japan in March 2026. The closing of the transaction in March 2026 completes a year-long regulatory and strategic process.
Wiz’s market position and product strengths
Before the acquisition, Wiz had established a strong commercial foothold in cloud security. The company reported crossing $1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2025 and entered 2026 with a projected growth rate around 40 percent. About half of the Fortune 100 were reported customers. Wiz’s platform is built to connect code, cloud configurations, and runtime behavior into a unified security context, giving organizations an integrated view of how applications are built, deployed, and operated across multicloud environments.
AI and cloud security capabilities
Wiz had expanded its platform to address AI-specific threats, adding capabilities for visibility into AI application usage, protections for AI-related risks, and runtime safeguards for AI workloads. Those capabilities were highlighted by both companies as a key complement to Google Cloud’s existing security assets, including Mandiant Consulting and Google’s AI models.
What the combined offering will deliver
Google Cloud and Wiz intend to integrate their capabilities to provide an AI-enhanced cybersecurity stack. Announced benefits include closer integration between Wiz’s cloud-native security tooling and Google’s security operations and threat intelligence, faster threat hunting and remediation using AI models, and continued support for multicloud environments. Google has committed to keeping Wiz services available to customers on competing cloud platforms and to maintaining partnerships with third-party security providers through its marketplace.
Corporate and customer commitments
Google emphasized that Wiz will continue to operate as a multi-cloud security platform, a move aimed at preserving customer choice for organizations that rely on multiple cloud vendors. The companies also described plans for continuous testing and measurement of security controls as part of a unified defense approach across development and runtime environments.
Context and significance
At $32 billion, the Wiz acquisition surpasses Google’s previous largest deal, the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012. For Google Cloud, the purchase represents a substantial investment in cloud and AI security at a time when enterprises are accelerating multicloud deployments and integrating AI into production systems.
Conclusion
The completion of the $32 billion acquisition brings Wiz’s cloud-native and AI-focused security capabilities into Google Cloud’s portfolio while preserving Wiz’s multi-cloud orientation. The companies have framed the move as a way to combine complementary strengths—Wiz’s platform and customer traction with Google’s threat intelligence and AI assets—to deliver an integrated security offering for complex,
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