The European Union’s antitrust authority has given the green light to Google’s $32 billion all-cash takeover of Wiz, the cloud‑focused cybersecurity start‑up, completing the last major regulatory hurdle after earlier U.S. approval. Announced in March 2025, the transaction is intended to accelerate Google Cloud’s push into enterprise security at a moment when customers treat robust cloud security as a prerequisite for migration.
Wiz built a reputation for rapid discovery and risk‑assessment across public cloud environments, attracting enterprise customers and investor attention with tools that simplify visibility and posture management without deep agent installs. Its technology and customer relationships are the immediate assets Google seeks; for a company that has long trailed AWS and Microsoft in enterprise mindshare, the acquisition offers a potentially fast route to parity on a capability that often decides cloud selection.
The size of the price tag is striking. At $32 billion, the deal is among the largest ever for a pure cybersecurity target and underscores the strategic premium buyers place on cloud security capabilities. For Google Cloud, the purchase is both defensive and offensive: defensive in locking in capabilities that reduce migration friction for customers, and offensive in signaling to enterprise buyers and rivals that Google intends to compete on security as much as on price or performance.
Regulatory clearance in Brussels is consequential beyond this single transaction. EU competition authorities examined whether combining a hyperscaler with a prominent cloud‑security vendor would distort competition or disadvantage rival clouds and independent security vendors. Their approval — after a review process that followed U.S. sign‑off — suggests regulators judged the market dynamic either sufficiently competitive or adequately protected by structural and behavioral factors.
The deal will reshape the competitive landscape for cloud security. Independent vendors may face pressure as a major platform operator integrates advanced security features into its stack, potentially prompting consolidation among smaller specialists or renewed partnership strategies. Customers, meanwhile, will weigh the convenience of a tightly integrated Google security suite against concerns about vendor lock‑in and cross‑cloud interoperability.
Looking ahead, the acquisition sets a template for further deals in the cloud-security space and beyond. If integration succeeds, Google Cloud could erode a key advantage long held by its rivals; if it stumbles, the market may become more cautious about large, rapid integrations. Either way, the transaction elevates security from a niche technical capability to a central strategic battleground in the race for enterprise cloud supremacy.