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Designing AWS Environments
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Designing AWS Environments

by Mitesh Soni, Wayde Gilchrist
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
174 pages
3h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Load balancing stateful applications

Many applications store some type of session or state data, to know for example, that a user has logged in or added an item to their shopping cart. If they store this data at the local filesystem level, then this data will be kept only on one instance, and the other instances won't have a copy. So, if the ELB routes a subsequent request to a different instance, the application will lose the session state and the user may have to log back in again, or have to add their item back into the shopping cart.

One way to cope with this, is through replication of the state data across all the instances. But this can be prone to failure, of the sinking application. Another option, which is supported by ELBs, is to ...

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