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Note that while it would have been nice to have API nodes automatically connect themselves to the Load Balancer on start, this is not currently possible with CloudFormation except via AWS "Auto Scaling", which does not have a manual override (and also does not map well onto resource provision in Infinit.e).
Enabling application-based stickiness for cookies is recommended (use "infinitecookie"), otherwise you can suffer "random" log-outs from some of the JSP-based utility GUIs.
Step 4: Start database nodes
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