Google Closes Its $32 Billion Wiz Acquisition — The Largest Deal in Google's History Reshapes Cloud Security
After a year of regulatory review, Google officially completes the all-cash acquisition of Wiz, which will join Google Cloud while maintaining multi-cloud security support.
The Deal Is Done
Google has officially closed its $32 billion all-cash acquisition of Wiz, the Israeli cloud security startup, following final regulatory clearance from EU authorities in February 2026. The deal, first announced in March 2025, represents the largest acquisition in Google's 28-year history — surpassing the $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility purchase in 2012 by a factor of nearly three.
Wiz will join Google Cloud but will maintain its own brand and its commitment to securing customers across all major cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure. That multi-cloud stance was reportedly a key condition of the deal — Wiz's 4,000+ enterprise customers chose it specifically because it wasn't locked to a single cloud vendor, and Google recognized that forcing exclusivity would destroy the product's core value proposition.
What Wiz Brings to Google Cloud
Wiz's platform provides agentless cloud security that scans entire cloud environments — compute, storage, networking, and identity — in minutes rather than the weeks traditional security tools require. The company reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue faster than almost any enterprise SaaS company in history, growing from $100M to $500M ARR in under 18 months.
For Google Cloud, which has been working to close the enterprise security gap with AWS and Azure, Wiz is a transformative addition. Cloud security consistently ranks as the top concern for enterprise CIOs evaluating cloud migrations, and Wiz's technology directly addresses that barrier. Google Cloud can now offer customers built-in security capabilities that rival or exceed what's available natively on competing platforms.
What This Means for the Security Market
The $32 billion price tag — roughly 64x Wiz's ARR at the time of the deal — sets a new high-water mark for cybersecurity valuations. It validates the thesis that cloud security is becoming infrastructure-critical, not just a nice-to-have compliance checkbox. For the broader security startup ecosystem, the Wiz exit provides both inspiration and a benchmark that will shape funding rounds and valuations for years to come.
The acquisition also represents the largest tech exit in Israeli startup history, cementing the country's position as a global cybersecurity powerhouse. Wiz was founded in 2020 by former members of Microsoft's Cloud Security Group, and its journey from founding to $32 billion exit in just six years is one of the fastest value-creation stories in enterprise software history.
Sources: TechCrunch (March 11, 2026), Cybersecurity Dive (March 11, 2026), SecurityWeek (March 11, 2026), Wall Street Journal (March 2026)