I was thinking the same thing. Especially when the the bottom of the article is basically a sales pitch for their own services. Whilst what they are saying is true and correct even if they aren't behind it (which I really doubt that they are the culprit).
"With or without patches, organizations would need to make significant infrastructure investments to keep services running in the face of attacks of any moderate size and larger. Instead of bearing that expense themselves, organizations running services on Google Cloud can take advantage of our investment in capacity at global scale in our Cross-Cloud Network to deliver and protect their applications."
"With or without patches, organizations would need to make significant infrastructure investments to keep services running in the face of attacks of any moderate size and larger. Instead of bearing that expense themselves, organizations running services on Google Cloud can take advantage of our investment in capacity at global scale in our Cross-Cloud Network to deliver and protect their applications."