Yes.
Pretty sure that's the point. This is all.
Google's proved to itself that when users take workloads to the cloud they just assume cloud operators will be takin' care of business. Last year, the cloud challenger announced it had introduced non-disruptive live migration of virtual machines, so that it could patch VMs without asking users to endure an interruption or …
The main argument I've heard for migrating to cloud services is "I don't want to be responsible for this, I don't want to manage this, La La La I'm not listening, don't blame me blame AWS/Azure/Google/Delete as appropriate"
I'm way too much of a control freak over my data and services to be comfortable with this although I know that problems of scale and to some degree reliability go away. I'd want these alerts so at least I can be informed about the health of my cloud services. I really can't imagine shrugging my shoulders and telling the boss "dunno mate, it's Google innit? Nuffink I can do squire. Nope, no idea, they haven't said anyfink."
I am, however, in a minority of one and I am aware this makes me a freak.
I'm way too much of a control freak over my data and services to be comfortable with this although I know that problems of scale and to some degree reliability go away. I'd want these alerts so at least I can be informed about the health of my cloud services. I really can't imagine shrugging my shoulders and telling the boss "dunno mate, it's Google innit? Nuffink I can do squire. Nope, no idea, they haven't said anyfink."
Although I agree with you. I am finding that after moving some stuff to the cloud when it goes wrong you can just say to the boss "dunno mate, it's Google innit? Nuffink I can do squire. Nope, no idea, they haven't said anyfink." and he just accepts it at face value, and I can forget about it. although you may need to add, "no, there is now way to contact them, what would cost more. You just have to wait until they fix it." more stress free, but they may not be needed my services any longer soon.