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Amazon Lightsail to Ceridian Dayforce integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce 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 Ceridian Dayforce

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Ceridian Dayforce is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Amazon Lightsail is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries, Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions in Ceridian Dayforce need to exist as queryable Databases, Schemas, Tables, Views in Amazon Lightsail before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Databases, Schemas, Tables, Views in Amazon Lightsail with Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries, Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions in Ceridian Dayforce field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Ceridian Dayforce typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

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 Two-way sync of Employee and Work Assignment data (position, department, location, org unit) into Postgres so provisioning, internal apps, and analytics read current worker and org data in SQL while HR keeps editing in Dayforce.
  • 04 Push new hires (Employee, Employment Status, Work Assignment) from an ATS or onboarding tool into Dayforce with POST once a candidate is hired, pre-fetching valid XRefCodes for department, position, location, and pay group.

Common sync patterns

Org and structure stay aligned

Groups, departments, managers, and reporting lines from Ceridian Dayforce stay consistent in Amazon Lightsail, so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in Amazon Lightsail write onto the matching record in Ceridian Dayforce where those fields are writable, keeping the people system enriched.

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Ceridian Dayforce land as queryable Databases, Schemas, Tables, Views in Amazon Lightsail, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

What you can sync between Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce

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 Ceridian Dayforce objects How this pairing syncs
Managed Databases Lightsail-hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL instances that a sync connects to as standard databases. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments Compensation Summary returns pay rate and frequency for reporting; Employee Pay Adjustments are written as effective-dated records via PATCH to post pay changes back to Dayforce. Managed Databases is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Logical databases on the instance that scope a connection. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries Time-and-attendance punches; raw clock entries are added with POST and punches removed with DELETE, so time data flows both ways between Dayforce and scheduling or workforce tools. Databases is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces used when selecting tables to sync. Employee Schedules Shift and schedule assignments; created and updated through POST and PATCH schedule endpoints and paged with pageSize, used to push schedules from a WFM tool or pull them for analytics. Schemas is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Employee Schedules to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables read from and written to at row level. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions Configuration reference data; POST creates org units and departments and PATCH updates job, position, department, and org-unit data. Used to resolve and validate XRefCodes when mapping employee writes. Tables is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Query-backed read-only sources. Time Away From Work & Balances Time-off requests and accrual balances read per employee; pulled into scheduling, payroll, or absence-reporting databases and used to reconcile leave against downstream systems. Views is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Time Away From Work & Balances to Ceridian Dayforce — 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. Employee (HR / Person Details) Core worker record keyed by XRefCode; GET Employees returns matching XRefCodes, then a per-employee GET fetches full HR details. New hires are added with POST and edits made with PATCH, so it is read and write. Users and Grants is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Employee (HR / Person Details) to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce

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 Ceridian Dayforce 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 Ceridian Dayforce through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Ceridian Dayforce Amazon Lightsail Sub-second propagation

DetectionCeridian Dayforce notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.

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.
  • Ceridian Dayforce: Dayforce does not publish numeric rate limits; thresholds vary by tenant and exceeding them returns HTTP 429, so large employee reads are paged (pageSize) and throttled with backoff. Employee list calls return XRefCodes only, so each employee needs a follow-up GET.
What ships with Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce

Connect Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Amazon Lightsail–Ceridian Dayforce connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Amazon Lightsail or Ceridian Dayforce instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Amazon Lightsail or Ceridian Dayforce 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 Ceridian Dayforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce.

How the Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce 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

Ceridian Dayforce

Integration surface
REST API (Dayforce RESTful Web Services, v1/v2), JSON payloads
Authentication
HTTP Basic authentication with a dedicated Web Services user plus the client namespace (Company ID), or an OAuth 2.0 access token from the Dayforce identity endpoint (POST dfid.dayforcehcm.com/connect/token, client_id Dayforce.HCMAnywhere.Client). Token-based auth is recommended, and the Web Services role with the Read Data subfeature must be enabled on the account.
Change detection
No CDC stream. Broad change detection uses delta polling on GET Employees with filterUpdatedStartDate/filterUpdatedEndDate and filterUpdatedEntities to pull only records changed in a window. Dayforce also has native Event Notifications (the Notification Publisher) for lifecycle events — hire, rehire, terminate, and workflow validation — delivered by push to a receiver service or by querying unacknowledged notifications; the publisher runs roughly hourly and each notification must be acknowledged.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Dayforce does not publish numeric rate limits; thresholds vary by tenant and exceeding them returns HTTP 429, so large employee reads are paged (pageSize) and throttled with backoff. Employee list calls return XRefCodes only, so each employee needs a follow-up GET.
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How it works

How to connect Amazon Lightsail to Ceridian Dayforce — 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 Ceridian Dayforce 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
    Ceridian Dayforce connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Amazon Lightsail and Ceridian Dayforce 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 ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce
    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 Ceridian Dayforce
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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