Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a nearly $10 billion deal, enhancing their strategic partnership and engineering collaboration.
Palo Alto Networks has announced a significant multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud, which will see the migration of key internal workloads to the cloud platform. This partnership, revealed on Friday, marks an expansion of their existing collaboration and aims to deepen their engineering efforts.
As part of this agreement, Palo Alto Networks will utilize Google Gemini’s artificial intelligence models for its copilots and leverage Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform. This integration reflects a growing trend among enterprises to harness AI while addressing security concerns.
“Every board is asking how to harness AI’s power without exposing the business to new threats,” said BJ Jenkins, president of Palo Alto Networks. “This partnership answers that question.” Matt Renner, chief revenue officer for Google Cloud, echoed this sentiment, stating that “AI has spawned a tremendous amount of demand for security.”
Palo Alto Networks is well-known for its extensive range of cybersecurity products and has already established over 75 joint integrations with Google Cloud. The company has reported $2 billion in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace, underscoring the success of their collaboration thus far.
The new phase of the partnership will enable Palo Alto Networks customers to protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud. It will also facilitate the maintenance of security policies, accelerate Google Cloud adoption, and simplify and unify security solutions across various platforms.
According to a recent press release from Palo Alto Networks, their State of Cloud Report, released in December 2025, indicates that customers are significantly increasing their use of cloud infrastructure to support new AI applications and services. Alarmingly, the report found that 99% of respondents experienced at least one attack on their AI infrastructure in the past year.
This partnership aims to address these pressing security challenges through an enhanced go-to-market strategy. It will focus on building security into every layer of hybrid multicloud infrastructure, every stage of application development, and every endpoint. This approach will allow businesses to innovate with advanced AI technologies while safeguarding their intellectual property and data in the cloud.
The companies plan to deliver end-to-end AI security, which includes a next-generation software firewall driven by AI, an AI-driven secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and a simplified and unified security experience for users.
Both Google and Palo Alto Networks have made substantial investments in security software as enterprises increasingly adopt AI solutions. Notably, Google is in the process of acquiring security firm Wiz for $32 billion, pending regulatory approval.
Palo Alto Networks has also been active in the AI space, launching AI-driven offerings in October and announcing plans to acquire software company Chronosphere for $3.35 billion last month. Renner emphasized that this new deal highlights Google Cloud’s advantageous positioning as AI reshapes the competitive landscape against major rivals like Amazon and Microsoft.
This partnership between Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud is poised to redefine how organizations approach AI security, ensuring that as they innovate, they do so with robust protections in place.
According to The American Bazaar, the collaboration is a strategic move to enhance security measures in an increasingly AI-driven world.