ILPIP look promising. I'll try it, thanks!

Speed test though... hm... 22Mbit/s is not exactly unrestricted, plus not sure how long is the burst that "speedtest-cli" makes. In my experience A0's uplink is burstable (but unusably slow when recovering from a burst), with long-term average being bang-on 5Mbps.

I do of course see exactly one "my" private IP in traceroute, but I'm not talking about that. I meant there are microsoft's private IPs (#12-#15) and dropped packets (#16 and on).

And of course, "platform doesn't forward ICMPs" is an annoyance in itself - i can't even ping my own VM.

    # target IP anonymized, but still have enough granularity to reproduce the traceroute
    traceroute to xxxxx.cloudapp.net (191.235.128.128), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
     1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.093 ms  0.117 ms  0.063 ms
     2  193.47.232.12 (193.47.232.12)  0.785 ms  0.785 ms  0.776 ms
     3  microsoft.mix-it.net (217.29.66.112)  1.219 ms  1.233 ms  1.225 ms
     4  xe-0-1-1-0.fra-96cbe-1a.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.42.12)  8.700 ms  8.902 ms  8.430 ms
     5  * * *
     6  * * *
     7  104.44.9.142 (104.44.9.142)  42.112 ms  39.194 ms  38.987 ms
     8  * * *
     9  be-6-0.ibr01.dub30.network.microsoft.com (104.44.4.142)  39.738 ms  38.266 ms  38.929 ms
    10  * * *
    11  ae2-0.db3-96c-3b.ntwk.msn.net (204.152.141.81)  36.986 ms  36.984 ms  36.925 ms
    12  25.149.64.247 (25.149.64.247)  36.951 ms  36.775 ms  37.152 ms
    13  10.10.132.81 (10.10.132.81)  36.917 ms  37.477 ms  37.287 ms
    14  10.60.31.77 (10.60.31.77)  37.317 ms  37.699 ms  37.899 ms
    15  10.60.31.69 (10.60.31.69)  37.653 ms  37.326 ms  37.441 ms
    16  * * *
    17  * * *
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    22  * * *
    23  * * *
    24  * * *
    25  * * *
    26  * * *
    27  * * *
    28  * * *
    29  * * *
    30  * * *

P.S. #12 - lol!