diff --git a/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.test.tsx b/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.test.tsx
index ed342a17b..dc54a5f2a 100644
--- a/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.test.tsx
+++ b/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.test.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 jest.mock("../../../hooks/useDirectories");
 import "@testing-library/jest-dom";
 import { fireEvent, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { extractFeatures } from "Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures";
+import { updateUserContext, userContext } from "UserContext";
 import React from "react";
 import { ConnectExplorer } from "./ConnectExplorer";
 
@@ -16,3 +18,24 @@ it("shows the connect form", () => {
   fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("Connect to your account with connection string"));
   expect(screen.queryByPlaceholderText("Please enter a connection string")).toBeDefined();
 });
+
+it("hides the connection string link when feature.disableConnectionStringLogin is true", () => {
+  const connectionString = "fakeConnectionString";
+  const login = jest.fn();
+  const setConnectionString = jest.fn();
+  const setEncryptedToken = jest.fn();
+  const setAuthType = jest.fn();
+  const oldFeatures = userContext.features;
+
+  const params = new URLSearchParams({
+    "feature.disableConnectionStringLogin": "true",
+  });
+
+  const testFeatures = extractFeatures(params);
+  updateUserContext({ features: testFeatures });
+
+  render(<ConnectExplorer {...{ login, setEncryptedToken, setAuthType, connectionString, setConnectionString }} />);
+  expect(screen.queryByPlaceholderText("Connect to your account with connection string")).toBeNull();
+
+  updateUserContext({ features: oldFeatures });
+});
diff --git a/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.tsx b/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.tsx
index 575093bc2..3ee72246e 100644
--- a/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.tsx
+++ b/src/Platform/Hosted/Components/ConnectExplorer.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { useBoolean } from "@fluentui/react-hooks";
+import { userContext } from "UserContext";
 import * as React from "react";
 import ConnectImage from "../../../../images/HdeConnectCosmosDB.svg";
 import ErrorImage from "../../../../images/error.svg";
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ export const ConnectExplorer: React.FunctionComponent<Props> = ({
   setConnectionString,
 }: Props) => {
   const [isFormVisible, { setTrue: showForm }] = useBoolean(false);
+  const enableConnectionStringLogin = !userContext.features.disableConnectionStringLogin;
 
   return (
     <div id="connectExplorer" className="connectExplorerContainer" style={{ display: "flex" }}>
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ export const ConnectExplorer: React.FunctionComponent<Props> = ({
             <img src={ConnectImage} alt="Azure Cosmos DB" />
           </p>
           <p className="welcomeText">Welcome to Azure Cosmos DB</p>
-          {isFormVisible ? (
+          {isFormVisible && enableConnectionStringLogin ? (
             <form
               id="connectWithConnectionString"
               onSubmit={async (event) => {
@@ -89,9 +91,11 @@ export const ConnectExplorer: React.FunctionComponent<Props> = ({
           ) : (
             <div id="connectWithAad">
               <input className="filterbtnstyle" type="button" value="Sign In" onClick={login} />
-              <p className="switchConnectTypeText" onClick={showForm}>
-                Connect to your account with connection string
-              </p>
+              {enableConnectionStringLogin && (
+                <p className="switchConnectTypeText" onClick={showForm}>
+                  Connect to your account with connection string
+                </p>
+              )}
             </div>
           )}
         </div>
diff --git a/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts b/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts
index 3e34ced0b..d6f8c8538 100644
--- a/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts
+++ b/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ export type Features = {
   readonly enableCopilotFullSchema: boolean;
   readonly copilotChatFixedMonacoEditorHeight: boolean;
   readonly enablePriorityBasedExecution: boolean;
+  readonly disableConnectionStringLogin: boolean;
 
   // can be set via both flight and feature flag
   autoscaleDefault: boolean;
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ export function extractFeatures(given = new URLSearchParams(window.location.sear
     enableCopilotFullSchema: "true" === get("enablecopilotfullschema", "true"),
     copilotChatFixedMonacoEditorHeight: "true" === get("copilotchatfixedmonacoeditorheight"),
     enablePriorityBasedExecution: "true" === get("enableprioritybasedexecution"),
+    disableConnectionStringLogin: "true" === get("disableconnectionstringlogin"),
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/web.config b/web.config
index 752b01196..9d9ff2619 100644
--- a/web.config
+++ b/web.config
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
           <conditions>
             <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^cosmos.azure.com" />
           </conditions>
-          <action type="Redirect" url="/?feature.enableAadDataPlane=true" redirectType="Permanent" />
+          <action type="Redirect" url="/?feature.enableAadDataPlane=true&amp;feature.disableConnectionStringLogin=true" redirectType="Permanent" />
         </rule>
       </rules>
       <outboundRules>