What is the AWSALB cookie?
These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 76 sites (3% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- Amazon Web Services
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 7 days (vendor says: Session)
Sites that set AWSALB before consent
The highest-ranked 30 of 76 sites.
- ui.com0 tracking companies
- duckdns.org2 tracking companies
- forbes.com2 tracking companies
- cnbc.com9 tracking companies
- teamviewer.com1 tracking company
- porkbun.com0 tracking companies
- apnews.com14 tracking companies
- theverge.com10 tracking companies
- worldbank.org9 tracking companies
- theatlantic.com4 tracking companies
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- apa.org4 tracking companies
- nypost.com8 tracking companies
- actu.fr3 tracking companies
- suumo.jp11 tracking companies
- tenki.jp27 tracking companies
- dagbladet.no3 tracking companies
- fabswingers.com0 tracking companies
- smadex.com2 tracking companies
- alphapolis.co.jp9 tracking companies
- fabguys.com0 tracking companies
- cmu.edu6 tracking companies
- avira.com5 tracking companies
- ucsd.edu8 tracking companies
- uchicago.edu5 tracking companies
- orcid.org2 tracking companies
- logitech.com1 tracking company
- thousandeyes.com2 tracking companies
- verizon.com20 tracking companies
- msu.edu10 tracking companies
- vox.com10 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Amazon Web Services.
- AWSALBCORS90 sites
- AWSALBTGCORS25 sites
- AWSALBTG13 sites
- cee6 sites
- AWSELBCORS3 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop AWSALB being set on later visits. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings stops the third-party kind everywhere, and clearing cookies for a site removes any it already set.
Description from the Open Cookie Database (Apache 2.0).
Understanding this page
- How cookie lifetimes work, and why a 13-month _ga matters
What a cookie's "expires" field actually controls, why Google Analytics ships a 2-year default that many sites cut down to 13 months, and how Safari's 7-day cap on script-set cookies changes the picture.
- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
- How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.