Google Acquires Cloud Security Startup "Wiz" for 46 Trillion KRW (March 18, 2025)

Google has made a massive bet in the cloud security market. March 18, 2025 (local time): Google parent company Alphabet announced acquisition of US New York-based cloud security startup Wiz for 32 billion USD (approximately 46.47 trillion KRW). This is the largest M&A in Google history -- three times the 2011 Motorola Mobility acquisition (12.5 billion USD). Once the deal closes, Wiz will officially be incorporated into Google Cloud business division; currently awaiting regulatory approval from US and European authorities. The industry views this acquisition as signaling a paradigm shift in cloud security and a strategic turning point for Google preparing for the multi-cloud era. What Wiz does: cloud security posture management (CSPM) -- automatically scans cloud environments across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and multi-cloud configurations to identify security misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations; Wiz differentiates by providing a graph-based view of how individual vulnerabilities connect to create attack paths; used by 45% of Fortune 100 companies including BMW, Salesforce, and Morgan Stanley. The strategic rationale: Google Cloud needs to accelerate growth against AWS (32% market share) and Azure (23% market share) vs Google Cloud (12%); Wiz security capabilities that work across all clouds (including AWS and Azure) paradoxically make Google Cloud more valuable by making customers more secure regardless of where they run workloads; the multi-cloud security thesis -- as enterprises run workloads across multiple clouds, the security layer that spans all of them becomes the control point; Google is betting that owning that control point makes Google Cloud the default choice for security-conscious enterprises. The antitrust risk: the FTC under current leadership has scrutinized large tech acquisitions; the cloud computing market concentration (AWS, Azure, Google controlling 67%+ of market) makes a 32 billion USD acquisition a potential regulatory target.