In my little neck of the woods - cloud consulting/professional services - Google is worse than Amazon where I just left last year.
AWS ProServe never had a RTO mandate and from former coworkers I’ve talked to, still doesn’t.
Google’s Cloud Consulting division does force a hybrid office schedule which is really dumb considering the work is both customer facing and requires a lot of travel
Before Covid, no team had an RTO mandate, so ProServe wasn’t really special here. In ProServe you were still expected to be in an office regularly, but it was just understood that you wouldn’t be in an Amazon office all the time because you’re likely at a client’s office instead.
Post-covid, it’s mostly the same, although now even many clients aren’t requiring consultants to come in. But when they do, you’re expected to be there.
I’ve seen companies take over a year and thousands of man hours to move from VMs on premise to a cloud platform.
Cloud agnosticism is hardly ever a business differentiator
It'd take years to migrate STILL even with all that effort. And they can't ship features they are so busy worrying about AWS going away.