The tech industry has seen numerous acquisitions, big tech buying smaller companies to expand, and a recent one was just carried out by Google.

On the 18th of March 2025, Google announced that it would be acquiring Wiz for $32B, all in cash. Wiz is a cloud security platform headquartered in New York, United States.

In their own words:

“This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud to accelerate two large and growing trends in the AI era: improved cloud security and the ability to use multiple clouds (multi cloud).

Both cybersecurity and cloud computing are rapidly growing industries with a vast range of solutions. The increased role of AI, and adoption of cloud services, have dramatically changed the security landscape for customers, making cybersecurity increasingly important in defending against emergent risks and protecting national security.”

One reason why Google made this huge purchase is because of the ubiquitous nature of Wiz when it comes to the organizations that rely on the cloud for their day to day activities, and with the growing reliance on the cloud, attackers are also shifting their attention to potential loopholes in cloud security.

By making this acquisition, Google aims to not only have a greater dominance in cloud computing, but also increase the security of Google Cloud.

What are the benefits of this for consumers?

Wiz was designed to suit different categories of customers, from small scale startups to large established organizations and even government institutions. By integrating Wiz into their already advanced cloud service ecosystem, Customers have something big waiting for them.

Here are some of the benefits customers will get from this acquisition between Google and Wiz:

• Improved Cloud Security: This is the most obvious. When two highly secure products are merged together, it results in something better. Google has promised to make this end-to end, giving more power to the end users while still not compromising on security.

• A touch of AI: Bringing the assistance of Google’s smart AI into cloud computing ensures that AI abilities to learn fast will enable better detection of threats.

• Multi Cloud Functionality: With this in place, customers can easily keep their multi cloud options highly secure. Further breaking down, Wiz can still be accessed from all of their previous partners, AWS, Oracle and Azure, all with the same boost!

In the words of the CEO and Co-founder of Wiz, Assaf Rappaport

“Wiz and Google Cloud are both fueled by the belief that cloud security needs to be easier, more accessible, more intelligent, and democratized, so more organizations can adopt and use cloud and AI securely.”

Closing

Cloud computing is definitely the future. As a matter of fact, it is happening now and as more and more organizations rely on it, it is becoming clearly evident that it isn’t going away soon.

While we expect more news on this, we recommend that you, our audience pay more attention to this, either as a developer, security professional or a consumer.

The Cloud is the way, and Google has just made a big move towards that direction. Will you too? Do let us know in the comments what you think.