MongoDB Atlas supports a wide range of scaling options, including horizontal scaling through sharding, vertical scaling by increasing the resources of individual nodes, and global scaling with multi-region deployments. It is designed to handle everything from small applications to large, complex workloads.

MongoDB is one of the most scalable databases on the planet, and MongoDB Atlas brings you that same scalability, but with us managing it for you: You can scale up or down on larger instance types with no application downtime You can scale out across multiple instances with no application downtime using MongoDB’s native sharding capabilities