I can't say I know what problem it's solving in your particular situation, but I've found SSH tunnelling useful for redirecting cloud VPS traffic to my local bo

I can't say I know what problem it's solving in your particular situation, but I've found SSH tunnelling useful for redirecting cloud VPS traffic to my local box to pinpoint and debug issues in an IDE - though these days it's all k8s and it's much easier to drop your machine in as a particular node.