What is the AWSALBTG cookie?
For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB).
Our October 2026 scan found it on 13 sites (1% 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 AWSALBTG before consent
The highest-ranked 13 of 13 sites.
- yahoo.com3 tracking companies
- samsung.com4 tracking companies
- substack.com0 tracking companies
- tenki.jp27 tracking companies
- fabswingers.com0 tracking companies
- fabguys.com0 tracking companies
- upwork.com1 tracking company
- hotwire.com2 tracking companies
- airtable.com2 tracking companies
- crazyegg.com2 tracking companies
Show 3 more sites
- postman.com1 tracking company
- paysafecard.com4 tracking companies
- salon.com6 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Amazon Web Services.
- AWSALBCORS90 sites
- AWSALB76 sites
- AWSALBTGCORS25 sites
- cee6 sites
- AWSELBCORS3 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop AWSALBTG 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.