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AWS S3 to Pendo integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep AWS S3 and Pendo 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 AWS S3 and Pendo

Put the same events, users, and metrics on both sides: Pendo and AWS S3 stay current in real time, in both directions.

Pendo is where teams explore, visualize, and report; AWS S3 is the store of record that holds the raw tables and full history behind those views. The two overlap wherever the same events, users, and metrics matter to both, and when the bridge between them is a nightly export or a hand-built extract, dashboards lag the warehouse and analysts spend the morning arguing over whose number is right.

Stacksync syncs Visitors, Accounts, Feature Events, Page Events in Pendo with Buckets, Objects, Prefixes, Object Metadata in AWS S3 field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, and Stacksync resolves conflicts by rules you set. Whether the flow is warehouse tables feeding live reports or captured events and segments landing back in AWS S3, every copy stays consistent.

Common use cases

  • 01 Load guide-engagement events into a reporting database to measure onboarding-flow adoption against retention and expansion.
  • 02 Export feature, page, and guide Events out of Pendo over event-time windows into Postgres or a warehouse so product usage joins with CRM, billing, and support data in SQL.
  • 03 Stage bulk loads for warehouses that ingest from object storage.
  • 04 Archive change history from ongoing syncs as timestamped files for audit and replay.

Common sync patterns

Shared user and account keys

Users and accounts tracked in Pendo line up with the customer or user rows in AWS S3 on a stable key, so both sides count the same population.

Corrections propagate instead of reloading

When a record is fixed or backfilled on one side, the change reaches the other without a full reload, keeping history consistent across both.

One number both sides agree on

Metrics and aggregates stay aligned between the two systems, so a figure shown in Pendo matches the AWS S3 table it was built from instead of drifting between refreshes.

What you can sync between AWS S3 and Pendo

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.

AWS S3 objects Pendo objects How this pairing syncs
Buckets Top-level containers a sync targets; region and policy are set at this level. Accounts Company/workspace records that roll visitors up to an account dimension; readable via Aggregation and a write target for custom fields (plan, ARR, health) via the Metadata API. Buckets is specific to AWS S3 and Accounts to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Objects The stored files (CSV, JSON, Parquet); syncs read them as datasets or write exports into them. Feature Events Click/interaction events on tagged features, read-only through the Aggregation API over an event-time window and joined to the Feature definitions. Objects is specific to AWS S3 and Feature Events to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Prefixes Key-name paths used to partition synced datasets, since S3 has no real directories. Page Events Page-view events for tagged pages; read-only via the Aggregation API, used for adoption and path analysis in a warehouse. Prefixes is specific to AWS S3 and Page Events to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Object Metadata System and user-defined metadata read alongside object contents. Guide Events Guide seen/advanced/dismissed and step events for in-app walkthroughs; read-only through the Aggregation API to measure onboarding flow adoption. Object Metadata is specific to AWS S3 and Guide Events to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Object Versions Prior copies retained when versioning is enabled, relevant for reprocessing. Poll / NPS Responses Survey answers and NPS scores captured in-app (pollEvents / npsEvents); read-only via the Aggregation API as voice-of-customer data. Object Versions is specific to AWS S3 and Poll / NPS Responses to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Event Notifications Notifications on object creation or deletion that trigger incremental processing. Features / Pages / Guides (metadata) Definitions of tagged UI elements listed through the entity endpoints; read-only reference used to label and join the event streams. Event Notifications is specific to AWS S3 and Features / Pages / Guides (metadata) to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between AWS S3 and Pendo

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.

AWS S3 Pendo Sub-second propagation

DetectionAWS S3 notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. S3 Event Notifications on object create/delete delivered to SQS, SNS, Lambda, or EventBridge.

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

Pendo AWS S3 Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Pendo for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling - reads query the Aggregation API over event-time windows.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to AWS S3 through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • AWS S3: Request throughput scales per prefix; sustained high-volume workloads should spread keys across prefixes.
  • Pendo: Pendo does not publish fixed numeric limits; it throttles heavy Aggregation queries with 429s and caps/paginates large responses, so wide exports are paced and time-windowed.
What ships with AWS S3 ⇄ Pendo

Connect AWS S3 and Pendo for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every AWS S3–Pendo connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in AWS S3 or Pendo instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever AWS S3 or Pendo 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 AWS S3 or Pendo record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your AWS S3 ⇄ Pendo sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between AWS S3 and Pendo.

How the AWS S3 and Pendo connectors work

AWS S3

Integration surface
REST API (the S3 API), accessed directly or through AWS SDKs
Authentication
AWS IAM credentials with SigV4 signing; commonly a role scoped to specific buckets and prefixes
Change detection
S3 Event Notifications on object create/delete delivered to SQS, SNS, Lambda, or EventBridge; list-based polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request throughput scales per prefix; sustained high-volume workloads should spread keys across prefixes

Pendo

Integration surface
Pendo Engage API (REST) on app.pendo.io (US) / app.eu.pendo.io (EU), base path /api/v1/ - Aggregation API for reads and the Metadata API for writes
Authentication
Integration key sent in the x-pendo-integration-key header, generated in Subscription Settings; keys are scoped read-only or read/write, so writes require a read/write key
Change detection
Polling - reads query the Aggregation API over event-time windows; no change-data-capture feed and no data-change webhooks. Writes go through the Metadata API on demand.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Pendo does not publish fixed numeric limits; it throttles heavy Aggregation queries with 429s and caps/paginates large responses, so wide exports are paced and time-windowed.
How it works

How to connect AWS S3 to Pendo — 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 AWS S3 and Pendo 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
    AWS S3 connected
    Pendo connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the AWS S3 and Pendo 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 · AWS S3 ⇄ Pendo
    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
    AWS S3 Pendo
    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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

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