Honestly don't think that is an issue. AWS is THE most certified company I have ever worked with. Seriously, go look at their compliance page - it is ridiculous. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/

Certification is a theater for managers and so called decision makers. It might have a positive impact on code quality as long as people are motivated. But if insiders are telling me that the workplace culture is deteriorating that is a serious problem. Certification will not prevent bad code hitting production.

Reminds me of several CMM Level 5 certified IT services firms consistently grounding projects into dust!

I was mainly referring to the security of their systems, but I take your point.

Not certain on this, but I think Azure is known to have more compliance certifications. This is probably largely due to the long relationships Microsoft has with government organizations etc.