EU approves Google’s $32 billion acquisition of Wiz

Gelonghui, February 10th｜The European Union has approved Google's acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz, with a transaction size of $32 billion, marking the largest acquisition in Google's history and a victory for the company. The EU's executive body, the European Commission, stated on Tuesday that the deal is unlikely to affect market competition within the EU. Regulators said that even if Google bundles Wiz's security platform with its own existing products or makes the Wiz platform incompatible with the cloud services of Google's competitors, customers can still turn to services provided by other strong competitors. Google announced this all-cash deal in March 2025, betting that integrating Wiz into its cloud business will accelerate the enhancement of its cloud security capabilities and strengthen its multi-cloud deployment capabilities—two major trends that are rapidly developing in the era of artificial intelligence. Wiz provides cybersecurity software for cloud computing and has operations in New York, Arlington, Virginia, London, and Tel Aviv. The deal was approved by U.S. antitrust authorities in November last year and was submitted to EU merger regulators for review in January this year.