🔗 Create a database:
MongoDB Atlas – A cloud-based platform to create and manage your MongoDB database.
🖥️ Access the GUI:
MongoDB Compass – A graphical user interface (GUI) to visually interact with your MongoDB database.
MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed cloud version of the MongoDB database, hosted by the official MongoDB team.
🚫 No server setup
🚫 No manual backups
✅ Just deploy, connect, and build
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 🌩️ Cloud Hosted | Hosted on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure |
| 🛡️ Secure by Default | TLS encryption, IP whitelisting, role-based access |
| 📈 Performance Monitoring | Real-time dashboard, slow query analyzer |
| 📦 Automatic Backups | Built-in daily snapshots |
| 🚀 Scalable | Easily scale up/down CPU, memory, and storage |
| 💡 Developer Tools | Built-in GUI (Data Explorer), CLI, Compass, Charts |
| 🧪 Free Tier Available | Shared cluster, 512MB storage — ideal for testing/learning |
| Tier | Description |
|---|---|
| 🆓 Free Tier | Shared cluster, 512MB, basic monitoring |
| 💼 Dedicated Clusters | Production-grade, high performance |
| 📊 Autoscaling | Automatically adjust resources based on load |
| 🧩 Pay-as-you-go | Charges depend on cloud provider and region |
| Use Case | Use Atlas? |
|---|---|
| 🚀 Rapid app development | ✅ Yes |
| 🧪 Learning or experimenting | ✅ Free tier is great |
| 👷 Self-managed infra preferred | ❌ Use self-hosted MongoDB instead |
| 🔐 Need enterprise-grade security | ✅ Yes |
| 🔄 Want automated scaling/backups | ✅ Yes |