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Amazon Lightsail to Azure Active Directory integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory 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 Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory

Close the gap between your application data and your directory: Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.

Azure 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 Managed Databases, Databases, Schemas, Tables in Amazon Lightsail with Directory roles, Devices, Users, Groups in Azure 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 Sync a Lightsail-hosted application database with a CRM so customer records match what the app stores.
  • 02 Push cleaned or enriched records from central systems back into the Lightsail database behind a small web app.
  • 03 Provision and deprovision Entra ID Users and Group memberships from an HR system of record so account enablement follows employment status.
  • 04 Sync manager, department, and jobTitle from an HRIS back onto Entra ID User attributes to keep dynamic groups and Conditional Access accurate.

Common sync patterns

Read users and groups as ordinary tables

Users, groups, and their memberships from Azure 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.

Keep group and role membership aligned

A group or role change made in either system updates the other, so the entitlements an application enforces match what the directory grants.

One profile, kept current

A name, department, email, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so the profile the directory shows and the data the application reads stop drifting apart.

What you can sync between Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory

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.

Amazon Lightsail objects Azure Active Directory objects How this pairing syncs
Managed Databases Lightsail-hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL instances that a sync connects to as standard databases. Group memberships Member and owner relationships on /groups/{id}/members; added and removed via the $ref endpoint and tracked for changes with delta query on $select=members. Managed Databases is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Group memberships to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Logical databases on the instance that scope a connection. Applications App registrations under /applications; usually read into a database or CMDB for app ownership and credential-expiry tracking. Databases is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Applications to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces used when selecting tables to sync. Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. Schemas is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Service principals to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables read from and written to at row level. Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. Tables is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Directory roles to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Query-backed read-only sources. Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. Views is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Devices to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users and Grants Database accounts used to give the sync connection scoped access. Users /users in Microsoft Graph; synced two-way — profile attributes, accountEnabled, and assignedLicenses are read out while provisioning writes (create, update, disable, delete) are pushed back. Users and Grants is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Users to Azure Active Directory — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory

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.

Amazon Lightsail Azure 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 Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Azure Active Directory Amazon Lightsail Sub-second propagation

DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Amazon Lightsail as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Amazon Lightsail: No API-style rate limits; capacity is fixed by the chosen Lightsail bundle.
  • Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
What ships with Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Azure Active Directory

Connect Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Amazon Lightsail–Azure Active Directory connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Amazon Lightsail or Azure Active Directory instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Amazon Lightsail or Azure Active Directory 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 Amazon Lightsail or Azure Active Directory record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Azure Active Directory sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory.

How the Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory connectors work

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

Azure Active Directory

Integration surface
Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
Change detection
Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header
How it works

How to connect Amazon Lightsail to Azure Active Directory — 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.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Amazon Lightsail connected
    Azure Active Directory connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Amazon Lightsail and Azure Active Directory 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.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Azure Active Directory
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Amazon Lightsail Azure Active Directory
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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