Java application session timeout on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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I have a Spring application with a standard cookie-based Spring authentication. I can control the session timeout on a Tomcat locally using session-timeout property in my project's web.xml. So for instance, if session-timeout is set to 1, I see that the session expires after one minute.

However, when the application is deployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (standard war file), it looks like session-timeout in project's web.xml file has no effect. I am running load-balanced AWS environment.

Am I missing something obvious? How do I control session expiration on AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

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springsessionspring-securityamazon-elastic-beanstalkweb.xml
Are you running on a single instance ? Or you have started more then one instance of application at beanstalk ? – Babl
@Babl, I am running load-balanced AWS environment. I have updated the question. – Maksim Sorokin
did you enable session stickiness? If you did, what happens when you issue two requests 5 minutes apart? Are they properly served with the same session id? – Tal

1 Answers

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Enabling stick sessions solved the issue.

However, be aware about https://stackoverflow.com/a/10502092/417297