Google Announces Agreement to Acquire Wiz

Today, we announced an agreement to acquire Wiz. To learn more about this acquisition and its implications for Cloud customers and partners, you can read our press release below and find additional information on the Cloud blog.

Acquisition Details

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 18, 2025)—Google LLC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction. Once the acquisition is closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud.

Strategic Investment in Cloud Security and Multicloud

This acquisition represents a significant investment by Google Cloud aimed at accelerating two rapidly growing trends in the AI era: enhanced cloud security and the adoption of multicloud strategies. The cybersecurity and cloud computing industries are experiencing rapid growth, with a wide array of solutions available. The increasing use of AI and the adoption of cloud services have dramatically altered the security landscape, making cybersecurity critical for defending against emerging risks and protecting national security.

Wiz’s Security Platform

Wiz provides an easy-to-use security platform that integrates with all major clouds and code environments, helping prevent cybersecurity incidents. Organizations of all sizes, from startups and large enterprises to governments and public sector entities, can utilize Wiz to protect their cloud-based infrastructure and applications. As an innovative leader, Wiz continues to deliver new products, experiencing strong adoption and fueling rapid business growth, including the development of new categories of cybersecurity solutions over the last 12 months.

Enhancing Security Solutions with Google Cloud

Google Cloud is a leader in cloud infrastructure, boasting deep AI expertise and a track record of innovation in security. The combination of Google Cloud and Wiz will enhance security solutions, making them more scalable and beneficial for customers and partners across all major clouds. The key benefits of this acquisition include:

• Improved Security Design and Automation: Providing an end-to-end security platform for customers of all types and sizes in the AI era.
• Scalability for Cybersecurity Teams: Offering an automated security platform to scale cybersecurity teams’ capabilities.
• Cost Reduction: Lowering the cost of implementing and managing security controls for customers.
• Enhanced Threat Protection: Protecting against new threats emerging due to AI advancements, preventing breaches, and enabling more efficient responses to breaches.
• Boosting Multicloud Adoption: Enhancing the adoption of multicloud security, thereby increasing customers’ ability to use multiple clouds and spurring innovation and adoption in cloud computing.

Continued Support Across All Major Clouds

Wiz’s products will continue to be available and functional across all major clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud platforms. These products will be offered to customers through a variety of partner security solutions. Additionally, Google Cloud will continue to provide customers with a wide range of choices through the Google Cloud Marketplace.

Technical Details and Next Steps

For more technical information about Wiz’s solutions and how they will integrate with Google Cloud, please visit the Google Cloud blog and the Wiz blog. The deal is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.

Webcast

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) will host a webcast on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:00am Pacific Time (9:00am Eastern Time) to discuss this announcement. The webcast, featuring Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet; Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud; Assaf Rappaport, CEO, Wiz; and Anat Ashkenazi, CFO, Google and Alphabet, can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/live/8jY5YBSRVEU. A replay will be available for two weeks following the webcast.

Quotes

• Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google: "Google has always been focused on strong security, making us a leader in keeping people safe online. Today, businesses and governments running in the cloud need even stronger security solutions and more choice in cloud computing providers. Together, Google Cloud and Wiz will significantly enhance cloud security and the ability to use multiple clouds."
• Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud: "Google Cloud and Wiz share a vision to make cybersecurity more accessible and simpler for organizations of any size and industry. By enabling more companies to prevent cyber attacks, including in complex software environments, we can help organizations minimize the cost, disruption, and hassle caused by cybersecurity incidents."
• Assaf Rappaport, Co-Founder & CEO, Wiz: "Wiz and Google Cloud are committed to supporting and protecting customers across all major clouds, keeping them safe and secure wherever they operate. This acquisition will bolster our mission to improve security and prevent breaches by providing additional resources and deep AI expertise."

Contacts

• Investors: investor-relations@abc.xyz
• Press: press@google.com

About Google

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome, and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely recognized companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated, and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models, and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

About Wiz

Wiz secures everything organizations build and run in the cloud and transforms security by enabling a new operating model. The Wiz CNAPP empowers security and development teams to rapidly identify and remove critical risks in cloud environments, so they can build fast and securely. With Wiz, organizations can prioritize risk and stay agile. Its customers include notable companies such as Agoda, Avery Dennison, BMW, Cushman & Wakefield, DocuSign, Mars, Plaid, Priceline, Salesforce, and Slack, among others. The company is backed by Advent, Aglaé, Andreessen Horowitz, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Greylock, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Lightspeed, Salesforce, Sequoia, Thrive Capital, and Wellington.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding the acquisition of Wiz by Google. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause Alphabet Inc.’s actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risk that the closing conditions for the acquisition will not be satisfied, including the risk that the requisite regulatory approvals will not be obtained; the risk that the definitive agreement relating to the acquisition will be terminated prior to closing; the possibility that the acquisition will not be completed in the expected timeframe or at all; potential adverse effects to the businesses of the company or Wiz during the pendency of the acquisition; our ability to successfully integrate Wiz or other businesses that we may acquire in the future; our ability to achieve the benefits that we expect to realize as a result of the acquisition of Wiz; the potential negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations if we fail to achieve the benefits that we expect to realize as a result of the acquisition of Wiz or if these benefits take longer to achieve than expected; and other risks and uncertainties discussed in the reports the company has filed previously with the SEC, such as its Annual Report on Form 10-K. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, which speak as of the respective date of this release, except as required by law. Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.