Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Amazon Lightsail instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ Database
Active Directory to Amazon Lightsail integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail
Close the gap between your application data and your directory: Amazon Lightsail and Active Directory share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.
Active Directory is the system of record for who people are and what they can reach: users, the groups they belong to, and the applications assigned to them. Amazon Lightsail holds the operational data those same people show up in, whether an employee or member table that decides who should have an account at all, a customers list, or the rows an application checks before it authorizes an action. The two describe overlapping users and groups, and when a nightly export or a hand-run script is all that connects them, accounts lag joiners and leavers and the application authorizes against a stale picture of who has access.
Stacksync syncs Views, Users and Grants, Managed Databases, Databases in Amazon Lightsail with Directory roles, Service principals & applications, Organizational units, Organizational contacts in Active Directory field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, with the directory holding credentials and group membership and the database holding the source list of people who should exist at all, and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, resolving conflicts by rules you set. A person added to a table becomes an account within seconds, a departure disables one just as fast, and the directory's users and groups are always present in your tables as ordinary rows.
Common use cases
- 01 Migrate data continuously from a Lightsail database to a larger managed database as an application outgrows the VPS tier.
- 02 Sync a Lightsail-hosted application database with a CRM so customer records match what the app stores.
- 03 Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.
- 04 Keep security-group memberships aligned with application entitlement tables so access reflects the right teams as they change.
Common sync patterns
Provision accounts from the source of truth
When a person is added to the employee, member, or customer table in Amazon Lightsail, Stacksync creates the matching user in Active Directory with the right attributes, so access starts from live data instead of a manual ticket.
Deprovision the moment the record changes
When someone is marked inactive or removed in Amazon Lightsail, the matching account in Active Directory is disabled within seconds, closing the window between a departure and a login that still works.
Read users and groups as ordinary tables
Users, groups, and their memberships from Active Directory land in Amazon Lightsail as rows your application and queries can join, so authorization checks and access reporting run against the database instead of the directory API.
What you can sync between Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Active Directory objects | Amazon Lightsail objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. | Views Query-backed read-only sources. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Views to Amazon Lightsail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. | Users and Grants Database accounts used to give the sync connection scoped access. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Users and Grants to Amazon Lightsail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. | Managed Databases Lightsail-hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL instances that a sync connects to as standard databases. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Managed Databases to Amazon Lightsail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. | Databases Logical databases on the instance that scope a connection. | Users is specific to Active Directory and Databases to Amazon Lightsail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. | Schemas Namespaces used when selecting tables to sync. | Groups is specific to Active Directory and Schemas to Amazon Lightsail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. | Tables Relational tables read from and written to at row level. | Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Tables to Amazon Lightsail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Active Directory Amazon Lightsail Sub-second propagation
DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.
DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Amazon Lightsail as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.
Amazon Lightsail Active Directory Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Amazon Lightsail for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on timestamp or key columns.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Active Directory: Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
- Amazon Lightsail: No API-style rate limits; capacity is fixed by the chosen Lightsail bundle.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Amazon Lightsail
Connect Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Amazon Lightsail connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Amazon Lightsail data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Active Directory or Amazon Lightsail record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Amazon Lightsail sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail.
How the Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail connectors work
Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
Amazon Lightsail
- Integration surface
- MySQL or PostgreSQL wire protocol (SQL) to the managed database endpoint
- Authentication
- Database credentials; public endpoint access must be enabled or a tunnel used
- Change detection
- Polling on timestamp or key columns; log-based CDC depends on engine parameter access, which is more limited than on full RDS
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- No API-style rate limits; capacity is fixed by the chosen Lightsail bundle
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to Amazon Lightsail — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Active Directory
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Amazon Lightsail
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ Amazon LightsailCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory Amazon LightsailCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Service principals & applications and Organizational units), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Amazon Lightsail: External access requires enabling the database's public endpoint or routing through a Lightsail instance, which determines how a sync platform reaches it. Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta tokens for directory objects expire after about seven days; a sync paused longer must reinitialize with a full read. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–Amazon Lightsail integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and Amazon Lightsail. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling. On Amazon Lightsail: Polling on timestamp or key columns; log-based CDC depends on engine parameter access, which is more limited than on full RDS. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
SECURITY
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.
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SSO & SCIM
Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.
Alerts
Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.
Secure connection options
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