# MongoDB Atlas at a Glance — MongoDB

Source: https://www.geekswithgeeks.com/en/mongodb/mongo-atlas

> MongoDB's managed cloud database service.

## A managed database

**Atlas** is MongoDB's fully-managed cloud service — it handles provisioning, backups, monitoring and scaling for you.

## Connecting to an Atlas cluster

Atlas gives you a connection string to use from `mongosh` or your app's driver.

```bash
mongosh "mongodb+srv://cluster0.abcde.mongodb.net/myDb" --username ada
```

## Free tier to learn on

The **M0** free-tier cluster is enough to practice everything in this course without spending anything.