diff --git a/src/Common/Constants.ts b/src/Common/Constants.ts
index 57b65c43e..da1871ffe 100644
--- a/src/Common/Constants.ts
+++ b/src/Common/Constants.ts
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ export class Flights {
   public static readonly MongoIndexing = "mongoindexing";
   public static readonly AutoscaleTest = "autoscaletest";
   public static readonly SchemaAnalyzer = "schemaanalyzer";
+  public static readonly PartitionKeyTest = "partitionkeytest";
 }
 
 export class AfecFeatures {
diff --git a/src/Explorer/Panes/AddCollectionPanel.tsx b/src/Explorer/Panes/AddCollectionPanel.tsx
index a946c1091..f0ce4f4d1 100644
--- a/src/Explorer/Panes/AddCollectionPanel.tsx
+++ b/src/Explorer/Panes/AddCollectionPanel.tsx
@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ export class AddCollectionPanel extends React.Component<AddCollectionPanelProps,
       collectionId: "",
       enableIndexing: true,
       isSharded: userContext.apiType !== "Tables",
-      partitionKey: "",
+      partitionKey:
+        (userContext.features.partitionKeyDefault && userContext.apiType === "SQL") ||
+        (userContext.features.partitionKeyDefault && userContext.apiType === "Mongo")
+          ? "/id"
+          : "",
       enableDedicatedThroughput: false,
       createMongoWildCardIndex: isCapabilityEnabled("EnableMongo"),
       useHashV2: false,
@@ -413,6 +417,10 @@ export class AddCollectionPanel extends React.Component<AddCollectionPanelProps,
                 </TooltipHost>
               </Stack>
 
+              <Text variant="small" aria-label="pkDescription">
+                {this.getPartitionKeySubtext()}
+              </Text>
+
               <input
                 type="text"
                 id="addCollection-partitionKeyValue"
@@ -807,6 +815,17 @@ export class AddCollectionPanel extends React.Component<AddCollectionPanelProps,
     return tooltipText;
   }
 
+  private getPartitionKeySubtext(): string {
+    if (
+      userContext.features.partitionKeyDefault &&
+      (userContext.apiType === "SQL" || userContext.apiType === "Mongo")
+    ) {
+      const subtext = "For small workloads, the item ID is a suitable choice for the partition key.";
+      return subtext;
+    }
+    return "";
+  }
+
   private getAnalyticalStorageTooltipContent(): JSX.Element {
     return (
       <Text variant="small">
diff --git a/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts b/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts
index 95e3695df..da2c6d917 100644
--- a/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts
+++ b/src/Platform/Hosted/extractFeatures.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ export type Features = {
   readonly enableSchema: boolean;
   enableSchemaAnalyzer: boolean;
   autoscaleDefault: boolean;
+  partitionKeyDefault: boolean;
   readonly enableSDKoperations: boolean;
   readonly enableSpark: boolean;
   readonly enableTtl: boolean;
@@ -70,5 +71,6 @@ export function extractFeatures(given = new URLSearchParams(window.location.sear
     showMinRUSurvey: "true" === get("showminrusurvey"),
     ttl90Days: "true" === get("ttl90days"),
     autoscaleDefault: "true" === get("autoscaledefault"),
+    partitionKeyDefault: "true" === get("partitionkeytest"),
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/hooks/useKnockoutExplorer.ts b/src/hooks/useKnockoutExplorer.ts
index e0729bc80..87deee4e2 100644
--- a/src/hooks/useKnockoutExplorer.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/useKnockoutExplorer.ts
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ function updateContextsFromPortalMessage(inputs: DataExplorerInputsFrame) {
     if (inputs.flights.indexOf(Flights.SchemaAnalyzer) !== -1) {
       userContext.features.enableSchemaAnalyzer = true;
     }
+    if (inputs.flights.indexOf(Flights.PartitionKeyTest) !== -1) {
+      userContext.features.partitionKeyDefault = true;
+    }
   }
 }