This is pure marketing that might convince decision makers and execs that didn't play Pokémon Go.

No doubt, the CRE program could prove valuable. But in this case, they are congratulating themselves on a rocky and widely panned launch of a product on their platform. One might wonder, "If this is what deploying a viral app on Google Cloud Platform looks like when you have help from Google engineers, what chance does anyone else have of getting something right on their platform?"

I think that's probably the wrong takeaway, but it's not difficult for me to imagine that being the only conclusion one has.