# Alibaba Cloud API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/alibaba/alibaba-cloud-api/  
**Provider:** Alibaba — https://apis.io/providers/alibaba/  
**Base URL:** https://ecs.aliyuncs.com  
**Documentation:** https://api.alibabacloud.com/

Alibaba Cloud API is published by [Alibaba](https://apis.io/providers/alibaba/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Cloud, Cloud Computing, Storage, Networking, and Artificial Intelligence. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive API ecosystem covering all major cloud services including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), Relational Database Service (RDS), MaxCompute (big data), Function Compute (serverless), API Gateway, Content Delivery Network (CDN), and hundreds of additional services. The OpenAPI Explorer provides a web interface and WebCLI for calling APIs and automatically generating SDK code in Java, Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, and other languages.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://api.alibabacloud.com/
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba/refs/heads/main/openapi/alibaba-openapi.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Cloud, Cloud Computing, Storage, Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Big Data, Serverless

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/alibaba/alibaba-cloud-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/alibaba/.