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

Keep Amazon Lightsail and Navan 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 Navan

Work with Navan's financial data straight from Amazon Lightsail: read it with ordinary queries, write to it from your own code, and let Stacksync keep both sides consistent.

Engineers need finance data more often than finance systems make it easy to get: for internal tools, reporting services, or logic that reacts to invoices and payments. Working through the vendor API means rate limits, pagination, and glue code that has to be maintained forever.

Stacksync mirrors Manual Transactions, Bookings, Custom Fields, Receipts from Navan into Users and Grants, Managed Databases, Databases, Schemas in Amazon Lightsail and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Amazon Lightsail, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Navan with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push coded expense transactions into an accounting system, then set their ERP sync status in Navan so the same records are not exported twice.
  • 02 Pull Bookings by date range into a database to reconcile travel reservations against Card Transactions and monitor travel-policy spend.
  • 03 Push cleaned or enriched records from central systems back into the Lightsail database behind a small web app.
  • 04 Migrate data continuously from a Lightsail database to a larger managed database as an application outgrows the VPS tier.

Common sync patterns

React to financial events

Changes in Navan appear in Amazon Lightsail as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Navan live in Amazon Lightsail as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on Amazon Lightsail; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Navan.

What you can sync between Amazon Lightsail and Navan

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 Navan objects How this pairing syncs
Users and Grants Database accounts used to give the sync connection scoped access. Bookings Flight, hotel, rail, and car reservations from the Booking API; pulled read-only by createdFrom/createdTo date range for trip and travel-spend reporting. Users and Grants is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Bookings to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Managed Databases Lightsail-hosted MySQL or PostgreSQL instances that a sync connects to as standard databases. Custom Fields Company metadata such as cost centers and project codes; discovered via GET and their option lists created or updated via async POST. Managed Databases is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Custom Fields to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Logical databases on the instance that scope a connection. Receipts Receipt images tied to each transaction; fetched read-only through presigned URLs for archival in a warehouse or document store. Databases is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Receipts to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces used when selecting tables to sync. Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments Money-movement records including repayments, FX and platform fees, and credit or debit memos; read-only for reconciliation ledgers. Schemas is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables read from and written to at row level. Users Employee and cardholder records referenced by every transaction; usually provisioned from an HRIS and used to map spend to people and departments. Tables is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Users to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Query-backed read-only sources. Card Transactions Navan physical and virtual card spend; read via GET, then GL codes, cost centers, and ERP sync status are written back per transaction through the transaction update endpoint. Views is specific to Amazon Lightsail and Card Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Amazon Lightsail and Navan

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

Navan Amazon Lightsail Sub-second propagation

DetectionNavan notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events.

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.
  • Navan: Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
What ships with Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Navan

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Amazon Lightsail or Navan 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 Navan record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Amazon Lightsail ⇄ Navan 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 Navan.

How the Amazon Lightsail and Navan 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

Navan

Integration surface
REST (Expense API and Booking API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow; an admin creates a client_id and client_secret under Settings > Integrations and exchanges them at Navan's OAuth token endpoint for a short-lived bearer token that is refreshed on expiry (separate US and EU regional hosts)
Change detection
Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events; sync engines also poll GET endpoints with date-range and updatedAt filters (createdFrom/createdTo for bookings) to backfill history and reconcile. There is no database-level CDC.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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