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 know this question is very old, but I stumbled upon it while facing the same issue and there is an actual solution for it now in Azure.

When setting up your Virtual machine you can assign it an "Instance IP address". Once that has been configured, you can enabled ICMP in and out in the local firewall. You will then be able to ping out of your Azure VM and also use tools like traceroute.