[ruskyhacker]

Part of the reason some VPN providers (including myself in the past) lease the hardware is to be extremely scalable. Customer retention low because VPN doesn't work for xyz streaming service? "Check out our new endpoints here in this obscure tiny colo!" Want to spin up endpoints in Russia? Done! Africa? Done!

I have equipment I own in two colos - for other things. It made way more sense when I was selling VPN access to lease everything.

Most importantly, this boast Azure is making falls flat on its face unless they own everything. Even if they "own the servers" they're likely still colocated, being provided network hand-off, etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯