---
subcategory: "Elastic Load Balancing (ELB Classic)"
layout: "aws"
page_title: "AWS: aws_app_cookie_stickiness_policy"
description: |-
  Provides an application cookie stickiness policy, which allows an ELB to wed its stickiness cookie to a cookie generated by your application.
---

# Resource: aws_app_cookie_stickiness_policy

Provides an application cookie stickiness policy, which allows an ELB to wed its sticky cookie's expiration to a cookie generated by your application.

## Example Usage

```hcl
resource "aws_elb" "lb" {
  name               = "test-lb"
  availability_zones = ["us-east-1a"]

  listener {
    instance_port     = 8000
    instance_protocol = "http"
    lb_port           = 80
    lb_protocol       = "http"
  }
}

resource "aws_app_cookie_stickiness_policy" "foo" {
  name          = "foo_policy"
  load_balancer = aws_elb.lb.name
  lb_port       = 80
  cookie_name   = "MyAppCookie"
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `name` - (Required) The name of the stickiness policy.
* `load_balancer` - (Required) The name of load balancer to which the policy
  should be attached.
* `lb_port` - (Required) The load balancer port to which the policy
  should be applied. This must be an active listener on the load
balancer.
* `cookie_name` - (Required) The application cookie whose lifetime the ELB's cookie should follow.

## Attributes Reference

In addition to all arguments above, the following attributes are exported:

* `id` - The ID of the policy.
* `name` - The name of the stickiness policy.
* `load_balancer` - The name of load balancer to which the policy is attached.
* `lb_port` - The load balancer port to which the policy is applied.
* `cookie_name` - The application cookie whose lifetime the ELB's cookie should follow.

## Import

Application cookie stickiness policies can be imported using the ELB name, port, and policy name separated by colons (`:`), e.g.

```sh
$ terraform import aws_app_cookie_stickiness_policy.example my-elb:80:my-policy
```
