Google's mega-dollar acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz is seeing some European blowback from one of the continent's leading trade groups.

In a blog titled "Surely Not Again!," The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) drew comparisons with the Broadcom-VMware takeover by accusing the European Union (EU) of once more undermining Europe's own cloud vendors.

"Through its control of Wiz’s widely licensed software, Google will have the ability and the incentive to use unfair software licensing terms to lock-in customers to its own extensive and growing cloud ecosystem to the detriment of European cloud infrastructure service providers," wrote the body.

CISPE added the issue is made worse as customers increase their reliance on AI-based solutions which hinge on cybersecurity and cloud frameworks – something where "Google’s full-stack dominance is especially pronounced," and will likely become more so if the $32 billion Wiz deal finally comes to fruition.

The body also claimed Google Cloud has escaped additional scrutiny of its services under the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

"In the multicloud environment where Wiz and its cross-cloud security capabilities are especially strong, will Google ownership increase the risk of ‘leakage’ between clouds. Google could benefit from unfair insights into customer data, behavior, and usage metrics on third-party clouds and be able to leverage those insights to entice customers to its own cloud to the detriment of smaller European rivals," added CISPE.

CISPE invoked one of Europe's few cloud leaders in a spot of comparison, noting Google parent Alphabet has around 2,000-times in liquidity than OVHcloud, with a contrast of nearly $100 billion compared to the latter's approximately $40 million.

OVHcloud used an undisclosed amount of those funds last week to acquire end-to-end encryption Seald, as announced in its first quarter report for 2026.

CISPE cage-rattling

The cloud body's raised alarms follows its ongoing call for the EU to again look at Broadcom’s VMware acquisition. Having filed a complaint regarding the European Commission’s decision back in July over competition concerns, CISPE took issue with the 672 day-wait before the Union published its rationale for its decision, during which time VMware's parent “brutally imposed a whole raft of exponential price increases” and “unfair software licensing terms” – allegations refuted by Broadcom.

The group is on rosier terms with Google rival Microsoft, giving the cloud giant a positive "green" light after an agreement made in July between the pair on lower licensing fees.

Wiz said it had no comment on CISPE's concerns when contacted by SDxCentral. Google Cloud meanwhile commented: “Increasing access to multicloud security solutions, as this acquisition will do, will provide businesses and governments more choice in how they protect themselves.

“We look forward to completing the review process with the European Commission and other relevant jurisdictions, as we have already done in the U.S.”

Article updated January 15th to include Google Cloud's response.