Skype was one of the high-profile services made unavailable for some users who were unable to log in during the one-hour 40-minute intermittent outage.
Such cases are rare, but Amazon's bad outage, a little over a year ago, took down a number of high-profile services, including Reddit and Foursquare; months earlier, an outage had knocked out Netflix streaming on Christmas Eve 2011.
Her previous role as canon steward of Westminster Abbey and archdeacon of Westminster involved greeting and accompanying senior members of the royal family at the most high-profile services.
Anfield quickly become the focus of grief on Merseyside after the disaster and the high-profile services at the stadium helped ensure the disaster did not slip from public conciousness and arguably assisted the families of the victims in their campaign for a fresh inquest.
While Facebook's recent privacy concerns may not have had a tremendous impact on its user base, Bumble is likely to be one of several high-profile services rethinking its relationship with the social network.
University digital infrastructure is a strange beast, and judging by the fact that both of these high-profile services have serious shortcomings, it may be that there's room for someone to step in with a better solution.
But what we've been seeing with the outages this week, and what we see whenever other high-profile services like Amazon Web Services go down, is just how many other sites and services can be affected by an outage at a single company.
Streaming video service Vimeo now works with Chromecast, the company announced this morning, making it one of the more high-profile services to support Google's dongle-based media player which plugs into your TV's HDMI port and allows you to "cast" video, photos, music and more from your phone or computer to your television's big screen.
As a result, there have been a number of high-profile services also knocked oput in the crossfire, with people in Russia reporting dozens of sites affected including Twitch, Slack, Soundcloud, Viber, Spotify, Fifa, Nintendo, as well as Amazon and Google.
Mr Beausire said while the ambulances were their "most high profile" service they also provided youth work, a cliff rescue team, an inshore rescue boat and a marine ambulance.
