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Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP server

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Lets your AI look at and manage your Alibaba Cloud servers, storage, and databases for you.

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This is a helper made by Alibaba Cloud themselves. It connects your AI assistant to your Alibaba Cloud account, so you can ask in plain words and the AI will check or change things there. It is handy if you already run servers or databases on Alibaba Cloud and want less clicking around the web console.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to an app or service. This one connects your AI to Alibaba Cloud, so when you ask about your servers or databases, the AI can actually go and look, or do the task for you. You install it once, add your Alibaba Cloud keys, and then just talk to your AI like usual.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like how your servers are doing or to start one that is stopped. The AI passes that request to this helper. The helper talks to Alibaba Cloud on your behalf using the keys you gave it. Then it brings the answer back, or makes the change you asked for, and the AI tells you what happened in the chat.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “Show me all my Alibaba Cloud servers and which are running”, the Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP server connects it to Alibaba Cloud, and you get back answers and actions in your chat.

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What you can do with it

List your cloud servers and see their status
Start, stop, or reboot a server
Create a new server or delete one you no longer need
Run a command on a server without logging in
Check CPU, memory, and disk usage of your servers
List, create, or delete storage buckets
Start, stop, or restart your databases

Try asking your AI

“Show me all my Alibaba Cloud servers and which ones are running”
“Stop the server named web-prod-01”
“What is the CPU usage on my servers over the last hour”
“List my storage buckets and what is inside them”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, like a list of servers with their names and status, or a short summary of CPU and memory numbers. When you ask it to do something, it tells you whether the action went through. For deployments, it can report the status of the job it started.

Before you start

What you need

An Alibaba Cloud account with resources in it
An Access Key ID and Access Key Secret from Alibaba Cloud (these are like a username and password for apps; you create them in your Alibaba Cloud console)
An AI app that supports MCP servers, like Cline in VS Code or Cursor
uv installed on your computer (a small tool the setup page shows you how to install)

Install it with your AI

Add Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

Sign in to get the install prompt

Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.

Who it's for

People who already run servers, databases, or storage on Alibaba Cloud and want to check or manage them by chatting instead of clicking through the web console.