Google has officially closed its $32 billion all-cash purchase of Wiz, an Israeli cloud and AI security platform This article explores acquisition finalized wiz. . This is the biggest deal in Google's history and a big deal for the global cybersecurity industry.
The Wiz team will join Google Cloud, but they will keep their name and continue to help customers in all major cloud environments. After a year of regulatory and strategic work, the deal is finally done. In 2024, Google tried to buy Wiz for $23 billion, but Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport turned it down because he thought the company could grow much more. In early 2025, talks about the acquisition started up again, and in March 2025, a formal agreement was made public.
After that, the deal got the green light from U.S. regulators.
In October 2025, the Department of Justice, then the European Union and Australia in February 2026, and finally Singapore and Japan in March 2026. The $32 billion price tag is much higher than Google's previous record purchase, which was Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2012. Why Wiz Is Important for Cloud Security Before the acquisition was finalized, Wiz was already a major player in cloud security, with annual recurring revenue (ARR) of over $1 billion in 2025 and a projected growth rate of 40% in 2026.
Half of the Fortune 100 companies are already Wiz customers, which is a big deal.
The platform's main strength is that it can bring together code, cloud, and runtime into one shared security context. This gives businesses a complete picture of how applications are built, deployed, and run in complicated multicloud environments. Google's purchase is a direct response to the quickly changing world of cybersecurity, which is being shaped by the use of AI and the complexity of multicloud.
As businesses move important workloads to more than one cloud provider faster, hackers are using AI to make their attacks faster and more complex at the same time. Wiz has made a lot of changes to its platform in the past year to deal with AI-specific threats. These changes include features that let businesses see how AI applications are being used, stop AI-native risks, and keep AI workloads safe while they are running.
What the Combined Platform Offers Google Cloud and Wiz will work together to create a cybersecurity platform that uses AI and combines Google's threat intelligence and security operations knowledge with Wiz's cloud-native security features.
Some of the most important benefits for customers are: A single security platform that brings together Wiz's Cloud Security Platform and Google Security Operations to protect cloud-native apps from development to runtime. Threat intelligence powered by Google's Mandiant Consulting and Gemini AI model, which speeds up threat hunting and fixing. Wiz products still work with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Platform, which means they can cover multiple clouds.
New threat protection for attacks made by AI models and those that go after AI systems directly Proactive defense validation through constant testing and measurement of how well security controls work Wiz will still be a real multi-cloud security platform even though it is now part of Google Cloud.
Google has promised that Wiz's services will always be available to customers on other cloud platforms. This is a strategic move to gain the trust of businesses and grow the market for cloud security services. Google Cloud will also keep working with third-party security providers through its Marketplace, which will keep customers' options open across the wider security ecosystem.
This purchase makes Google the most powerful player in cloud and AI security at a time when cyber threats are becoming more common and dangerous. It gives businesses a strong, unified defense for all of their digital infrastructure., LinkedIn, and X for daily news about cybersecurity. Get in touch with us to have your stories featured.
