How to synchronize sessions using Amazon Web Services

Question

I am Amazon Web Services (AWS) and i have multiple web servers and a load balancer. The problem with the web servers is, that the $_SESSION is unique for each one. I'm keeping some information about the user in the $_SESSION.

What is the proper way to synchronize this information? Is there any way to unite the place, where those sessions are being kept, or should I use MySQL to store this data?

Answer 1

I think what you are looking for is 'Sticky Sessions'. If that’s what you are looking for, then Amazon gives you two different options.

Load Balancer http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/US_StickySessions.html#US_EnableStickySessionsLBCookies

And application based session stickinesshttp://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/US_StickySessions.html#US_EnableStickySessionsAppCookies

I hope this was informative.