Cloud and DevOps MCP servers let AI assistants interact with AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines — enabling natural-language infrastructure management without memorising arcane CLI flags. Site reliability engineers use them to query log streams, scale deployments, inspect running containers, or trace a slow Lambda function, all from within Claude Desktop. Because these servers interface with live infrastructure, responsible usage means applying the principle of least privilege and always enabling read-only modes unless writes are explicitly required.