Agreed. In fact, I've heard government decision makers actually swayed to go to the cloud due to outages with logic along the lines of, "If Amazon can't keep AWS running, what chance does our 30 person, chronically underfunded, team have?" There is also safety in having the outage be somebody else's fault, and having that outage effect a huge swath of the economy - "Sorry customer, but it's not just us." Reminds me a bit of the "nobody gets fired for picking IBM" mentality.
These outages have almost zero impact on anyone deciding to use a cloud provider.