[rewmie]

> In all scenarios, the traffic goes over Azure networks and/or Microsoft's private backbone.

That's the whole selling point of private links. How could you possibly missed that? That's exactly why companies onboard onto the service. They say exactly this exactly on the marketing brochure. That's why customers line up to pay for it: to get their traffic flow only through private networks instead of through the wild.

What kind of confusion reigns in your mind to come to the conclusion this was some obscure conspiratorial gotcha?

It boggles the mind how you felt the need to come up with absurd conspiracies involving IPv4 to arrive at a claim that the marketing pamphlets show front and center as their whole reason of existence: avoid traffic to go through the internet, and instead pay extra to go through private pipes they own.

It's as if the name actually means something!

[d-z-m]

> That's why customers line up to pay for it: to get their traffic flow only through private networks instead of through the wild.

I believe their point is that it doesn't flow through "the wild" in any case, it is probably routing within the Azure AS(aka Microsoft controlled networks). However, as you say, people line up to pay for it, likely for reasons having to do with their architecture/security model/compliance requirements.