Cloud computing did NOT cause Google's outage

This strikes me as just wrong.  The issue here isn't that there's an inherent problem with cloud computing that led to the outage.  Indeed, cloud/distributed computing create a robustness  in the face of a number of different kinds of failures if processes and services can migrate or distribute onto unaffected nodes.  This was a routing failure, one that would have been a problem if the services were running on a single server or many servers or virtualized servers or distributed servers or ... .  

There are certainly reasons to be careful about storing data on servers you don't control (see, for example, this), but I really don't think concerns about robustness should be among them.