I forgot, VPNs are unpopular on HN because? Someone popular said so? Lol. This includes wireguard to your vps too if that helps. Anything but nude networking as I call it.
Whereas securing your own network keeps them intact within your infrastructure.
Cloud is not always the answer. Learning to network and compute, is.
This is why we should learn from what Ed Snowden presented as just about all of the data gathered by NSA and their contemporaries utilized the concept that encryption and security should only exist at the edge and they were capturing network traffic inter-network and intra-DC.
There were reasons why companies like Google took his whistleblowing seriously and changed their infrastructure accordingly because none of them feel safe leaving their "secret sausage recipe" exposed while still technically out of band from the customer paths.