Tracert showing 30+ hops to my public IP on AzureVM.

I manage an Azure server farm and notice via tracert that all of my public IP show 30+ hops, most of which time-out. Notice 104.X twice and believe this is the Microsoft gateway range.

4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 71.155.x.x

5 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms 12.242.x.x

6 11 ms 19 ms 63 ms 12.90.x.x

7 * * * Request timed out.

8 * * 27 ms 104.44.34.174

9 29 ms 30 ms 31 ms 51.10.9.230

10 29 ms * * 104.44.52.135

11 * * * Request timed out.

12 * * * Request timed out.

...

29 * * * Request timed out.

30 * * * Request timed out.