I'm with Google on this one.
Technical types like to know this kind of stuff and an incident of this size and scope doesn't speak badly on Google's technical competence (some of the earlier incidents are a different story, but those were well covered then).
My big worry for Google in this space is that they don't seem to be picking up the commercial traction they want in cloud and my big worry for the people who are using them is that when other products have failed to take off Google have abruptly canned them.
Today's story isn't a bid deal in that respect though. I'd expect this to be a regular occurrence for providers of this scale and it's why redundancy planning is key for critical apps.