How to enable Ping(ICMP) on Azure

Question

In Windows Azure role, I cannot ping out

D:\\Users\\foglight>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.143.104] with 32 bytes of data:
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Answer 1

I don't believe you can do this. Traffic leaving the data center goes through the load balancer, and the load balancer only routes TCP-based traffic.