Horizontal Scaling of Tomcat in Microsoft Azure

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Hey everyone,

I am working on this quiet a while, but still no conclustion.

I want to do horizontal scaling of Tomcat instances in Microsoft Azure (1,2,3,... Tomcat instances for one service). I read lots of articles about session replication, clustering,... with Tomcat. Since Azure does not support Multicasts, there is no easy way to cluster Tomcat. Also sticky sessions is no options, because Azure does round robin load balancing. Setting up two services - one with Terracotta or Apache mod_jk - and the other with Tomcat instances seems overkill for me (if even doable)...

Is this even possible?

Thanks in advance for reading and answering my question. Every comment/idea is highly appreciated.

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