Trustworthy? I could go either way, depending on particular scenario.
Usable? Infinitely. I've noticed quite a few web sites and services putting obnoxious blocks or filters or other impediments against users coming from "widely-known" VPN and VPS provider IP addresses. But few seem to bother with Microsoft or Amazon IPs.
So for something that has the purpose of either getting me out from behind a restrictive network or wrapping my traffic on an insecure network, a VPN to an Azure- or EC2-provisioned virtual machine works just fine.
I have a Streisand [1] server on a Digital Ocean droplet, and I do run into the occasional Cloudflare: blocked or extra-aggressive captcha when I am routed through it.
Usable? Infinitely. I've noticed quite a few web sites and services putting obnoxious blocks or filters or other impediments against users coming from "widely-known" VPN and VPS provider IP addresses. But few seem to bother with Microsoft or Amazon IPs.
So for something that has the purpose of either getting me out from behind a restrictive network or wrapping my traffic on an insecure network, a VPN to an Azure- or EC2-provisioned virtual machine works just fine.