diff --git a/packages/compass-collection/src/components/collection-tab.tsx b/packages/compass-collection/src/components/collection-tab.tsx
index 305a115204d..58f24ed4e06 100644
--- a/packages/compass-collection/src/components/collection-tab.tsx
+++ b/packages/compass-collection/src/components/collection-tab.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   useConnectionInfoRef,
   useConnectionSupports,
 } from '@mongodb-js/compass-connections/provider';
+import { usePreference } from 'compass-preferences-model/provider';
 
 type CollectionSubtabTrackingId = Lowercase<CollectionSubtab> extends infer U
   ? U extends string
@@ -119,13 +120,17 @@ function WithErrorBoundary({
 function useCollectionTabs(props: CollectionMetadata) {
   const pluginTabs = useCollectionSubTabs();
   const connectionInfoRef = useConnectionInfoRef();
+  const isGlobalWritesEnabled = usePreference('enableGlobalWrites');
   const isGlobalWritesSupported =
     useConnectionSupports(connectionInfoRef.current.id, 'globalWrites') &&
     !props.isReadonly &&
     !toNS(props.namespace).specialish;
   return pluginTabs
     .filter((x) => {
-      if (x.name === 'GlobalWrites' && !isGlobalWritesSupported) {
+      if (
+        x.name === 'GlobalWrites' &&
+        (!isGlobalWritesEnabled || !isGlobalWritesSupported)
+      ) {
         return false;
       }
       return true;
diff --git a/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/feature-flags.ts b/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/feature-flags.ts
index 85b12aca7e3..ec0e14dd434 100644
--- a/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/feature-flags.ts
+++ b/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/feature-flags.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ export type FeatureFlags = {
   enableQueryHistoryAutocomplete: boolean;
   enableProxySupport: boolean;
   enableRollingIndexes: boolean;
+  enableGlobalWrites: boolean;
 };
 
 export const featureFlags: Required<{
@@ -92,4 +93,11 @@ export const featureFlags: Required<{
       short: 'Enable creating indexes with the rolling build in Atlas Cloud',
     },
   },
+
+  enableGlobalWrites: {
+    stage: 'development',
+    description: {
+      short: 'Enable Global Writes tab in Atlas Cloud',
+    },
+  },
 };
diff --git a/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/preferences-schema.ts b/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/preferences-schema.ts
index f3cfdb565a1..2cf49d575b9 100644
--- a/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/preferences-schema.ts
+++ b/packages/compass-preferences-model/src/preferences-schema.ts
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ export type InternalUserPreferences = {
   telemetryAnonymousId?: string;
   telemetryAtlasUserId?: string;
   userCreatedAt: number;
-  enableGlobalWrites: boolean;
 };
 
 // UserPreferences contains all preferences stored to disk.
@@ -877,15 +876,6 @@ export const storedUserPreferencesProps: Required<{
     validator: z.boolean().default(true),
     type: 'boolean',
   },
-
-  enableGlobalWrites: {
-    ui: false,
-    cli: false,
-    global: false,
-    description: null,
-    validator: z.boolean().default(false),
-    type: 'boolean',
-  },
   enableGenAIFeaturesAtlasProject: {
     ui: false,
     cli: true,