Alibaba Cloud is becoming even more serverless as it attempts to become a utility.

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Right now, Alibaba Cloud is expressing this idea of making more of its current cloud SaaS products serverless.

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The cloud maker said it has already made 20 of its services serverless and plans to transition more of its offerings to work the same way.

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Another example of its ambitions is Wuying Cloudbook, a thin client that connects to desktops as a service (DaaS) hosted on the Alibaba Cloud.

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