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Amazon RDS to Autopilot integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Amazon RDS and Autopilot 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 RDS and Autopilot

Sync the records in Amazon RDS into Autopilot and land its embeddings, classifications, and generated fields back on the same rows, in real time and without a pipeline to maintain.

AI systems do not hold customers or invoices the way business apps do. What they hold is derived from your data: the vectors and metadata in a vector store, or the classifications, extracted fields, and generated text a model produces over records it was given. Amazon RDS is where those source records actually live. The bridge between the two is the row itself, since an item in Autopilot and the record in Amazon RDS it describes are two halves of the same thing, and they drift the moment one is updated without the other.

Stacksync syncs Primary and Unique Keys, Read Replicas, Stored Procedures, Databases in Amazon RDS with Smart Segments, Journeys (Triggers), Activities, Contacts in Autopilot in real time. Rows created or changed in Amazon RDS flow into Autopilot so inference and embedding run on current data, and the scores, labels, and generated fields Autopilot produces flow back onto the matching rows in Amazon RDS, mapped field by field. A change on either side appears on the other within seconds, with no extraction job or webhook plumbing to keep alive.

Because matching is by a stable identifier, every row in Amazon RDS stays tied to its AI-side counterpart in Autopilot. Retrieval, enrichment, and generated content always resolve back to the record they came from, so there are no orphaned vectors and no labels describing a version of a row that no longer exists.

Common use cases

  • 01 Stream Activities into a warehouse so opens, clicks, and journey steps sit next to product and revenue data for lifecycle reporting.
  • 02 Upsert Contacts from a CRM or product database into Autopilot so new signups and profile changes flow into email and SMS journeys without manual CSV imports.
  • 03 Sync master data (customers, products, pricing) from an ERP into the RDS databases that power customer-facing apps
  • 04 Use a read replica as the sync source to keep change capture load off the primary instance

Common sync patterns

Run the AI on current data

Rows created or changed in Amazon RDS flow into Autopilot as they happen, so embeddings, classifications, and prompts run on the latest records instead of a nightly snapshot.

Write results back onto the record

Scores, labels, extracted fields, or generated text produced in Autopilot land on the matching row in Amazon RDS, next to the source data your applications already query.

Keep derived data fresh as sources change

When a row in Amazon RDS is updated or removed, its counterpart in Autopilot is updated or removed too, so nothing in Autopilot describes a record that has since changed or gone.

What you can sync between Amazon RDS and Autopilot

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 RDS objects Autopilot objects How this pairing syncs
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts. Journeys (Triggers) Automation journeys; a contact can be added to a journey via its trigger endpoint to start automated email or SMS sequences. Primary and Unique Keys is specific to Amazon RDS and Journeys (Triggers) to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Read Replicas Low-impact read endpoints often used as the source side of a sync. Activities Per-contact activity and event history (opens, clicks, journey steps); read-only feed used for engagement reporting. Read Replicas is specific to Amazon RDS and Activities to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Stored Procedures Engine-specific logic that can react to synced rows. Contacts Core people records (email, name, custom fields, list and segment membership); upserted two-way as the primary sync object. Stored Procedures is specific to Amazon RDS and Contacts to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Engine-level databases on the instance that scope a sync's reads and writes. Lists Static contact lists; membership is readable per list and writable by adding or removing contacts. Databases is specific to Amazon RDS and Lists to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces within a database used to isolate synced tables. Custom Fields User-defined contact properties (string, number, date, boolean); discovered so field keys map cleanly to destination columns. Schemas is specific to Amazon RDS and Custom Fields to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables The core sync target; rows map to records in connected SaaS systems. Smart Segments Rule-based dynamic audiences; membership is computed by Autopilot, so it is read-only over the API. Tables is specific to Amazon RDS and Smart Segments to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Amazon RDS and Autopilot

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 RDS Autopilot Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Amazon RDS are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Engine-native log-based CDC: MySQL/MariaDB binlog, PostgreSQL logical replication, SQL Server CDC.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Autopilot through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Autopilot Amazon RDS Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Autopilot for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No CDC.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Amazon RDS: No API rate limits; throughput depends on instance class, storage IOPS, and connection limits.
  • Autopilot: The REST API is capped at 100 requests/minute per account; exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Enterprise plans can request a higher limit. Contact writes accept an array for bulk upsert, and list and segment reads paginate via a bookmark cursor.
What ships with Amazon RDS ⇄ Autopilot

Connect Amazon RDS and Autopilot for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Amazon RDS or Autopilot 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 RDS or Autopilot record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Amazon RDS ⇄ Autopilot sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Amazon RDS and Autopilot.

How the Amazon RDS and Autopilot connectors work

Amazon RDS

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol of the chosen engine (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle)
Authentication
Database credentials over SSL/TLS, or IAM database authentication on supported engines
Change detection
Engine-native log-based CDC: MySQL/MariaDB binlog, PostgreSQL logical replication, SQL Server CDC; enabled through RDS parameter groups, with polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput depends on instance class, storage IOPS, and connection limits

Autopilot

Integration surface
REST API (Autopilot v1); Autopilot rebranded to Ortto in 2021 and the newer Ortto API co-exists with the legacy Autopilot endpoints
Authentication
Per-account API key sent in the autopilotapikey request header (generated in account settings); requests use Content-Type application/json against https://api2.autopilothq.com/v1/
Change detection
No CDC; incremental sync polls the /contacts endpoint with bookmark cursor pagination and updated timestamps. Journey webhook actions can push specific contact events, but there is no general change-subscription webhook, so polling is the reliable path.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
The REST API is capped at 100 requests/minute per account; exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Enterprise plans can request a higher limit. Contact writes accept an array for bulk upsert, and list and segment reads paginate via a bookmark cursor.
Autopilot setup guide
How it works

How to connect Amazon RDS to Autopilot — 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 RDS and Autopilot 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 RDS connected
    Autopilot connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Amazon RDS and Autopilot 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 RDS ⇄ Autopilot
    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 RDS Autopilot
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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.

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