diff --git a/assets/config.php b/assets/config.php
index 76441036..f15a843a 100644
--- a/assets/config.php
+++ b/assets/config.php
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ return [
          *
          * Note: This will implicitly add your configured session store to the list of prefixed stores above.
          */
-        'scope_sessions' => true,
+        'scope_sessions' => in_array(env('SESSION_DRIVER'), ['redis', 'memcached', 'dynamodb', 'apc'], true),
 
         'tag_base' => 'tenant', // This tag_base, followed by the tenant_id, will form a tag that will be applied on each cache call.
     ],
diff --git a/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php b/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php
index 9d87e19a..97bd7d24 100644
--- a/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php
+++ b/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php
@@ -102,14 +102,7 @@ class CacheTenancyBootstrapper implements TenancyBootstrapper
         if ($this->config->get('tenancy.cache.scope_sessions', true)) {
             // These are the only cache driven session backends (see Laravel's config/session.php)
             if (! in_array($this->config->get('session.driver'), ['redis', 'memcached', 'dynamodb', 'apc'], true)) {
-                if (app()->environment('production')) {
-                    // We only throw this exception in prod to make configuration a little easier. Developers
-                    // may have scope_sessions set to true while using different session drivers e.g. in tests.
-                    // Previously we just silently ignored this, however since session scoping is of high importance
-                    // in production, we make sure to notify the developer, by throwing an exception, that session
-                    // scoping isn't happening as expected/configured due to an incompatible session driver.
-                    throw new Exception('Session driver [' . $this->config->get('session.driver') . '] cannot be scoped by tenancy.cache.scope_sessions');
-                }
+                throw new Exception('Session driver [' . $this->config->get('session.driver') . '] cannot be scoped by tenancy.cache.scope_sessions');
             } else {
                 // Scoping sessions using this bootstrapper implicitly adds the session store to $names
                 $names[] = $this->getSessionCacheStoreName();