Create an Athena-queryable CloudTrail with CDK (or CloudFormation?)

Question

I'm trying to create an app/stack/solution which, when deployed, sets up the necessary infrastructure to programmatically query CloudTrail logs: In particular, to find resource creation requests in some services by a given execution role.

It seemed (e.g. from this [Querying CloudTrail Logs page](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/cloudtrail-logs.html) in the Athena developer guide) like Athena would be a good solution here, but I'm struggling to get the setup automated properly.

Setting up the [Trail](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-cloudtrail-readme.html#trail) is pretty straightforward. However, my current attempt at mapping the [Athena manual partitioning instructions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/cloudtrail-logs.html#create-cloudtrail-table) to CDK generating a Glue table, seems to come up with a table with 0 partitions... And I don't really understand how the [partition projection instructions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/cloudtrail-logs.html#create-cloudtrail-table-partition-projection) could translate to CDK?

There are definitely CloudTrail events in the source bucket/prefix - does anybody know how to make this work?

I'm not that deep on either Glue or Athena yet. Current draft CDK for the Glue table below:

```typescript
const cloudTrailTable = new glue.Table(this, "CloudTrailGlueTable", {
  columns: [
    { name: "eventversion", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    {
      name: "useridentity",
      type: glue.Schema.struct([
        { name: "type", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        { name: "principalid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        { name: "arn", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        { name: "accountid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        { name: "invokedby", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        { name: "accesskeyid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        { name: "userName", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        {
          name: "sessioncontext",
          type: glue.Schema.struct([
            {
              name: "attributes",
              type: glue.Schema.struct([
                { name: "mfaauthenticated", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
                { name: "creationdate", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
              ]),
            },
            {
              name: "sessionissuer",
              type: glue.Schema.struct([
                { name: "type", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
                { name: "principalId", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
                { name: "arn", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
                { name: "accountId", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
                { name: "userName", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
              ]),
            },
          ]),
        },
      ]),
    },
    { name: "eventtime", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "eventsource", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "eventname", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "awsregion", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "sourceipaddress", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "useragent", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "errorcode", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "errormessage", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "requestparameters", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "responseelements", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "additionaleventdata", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "requestid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "eventid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    {
      name: "resources",
      type: glue.Schema.array(
        glue.Schema.struct([
          { name: "ARN", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
          { name: "accountId", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
          { name: "type", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
        ])
      ),
    },
    { name: "eventtype", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "apiversion", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "readonly", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "recipientaccountid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "serviceeventdetails", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "sharedeventid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "vpcendpointid", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
  ],
  dataFormat: glue.DataFormat.CLOUDTRAIL_LOGS,
  database: myGlueDatabase,
  tableName: "cloudtrail_table",
  bucket: myCloudTrailBucket,
  description: "CloudTrail Glue table",
  s3Prefix: `AWSLogs/${cdk.Stack.of(this).account}/CloudTrail/`,
  partitionKeys: [
    { name: "region", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "year", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "month", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
    { name: "day", type: glue.Schema.STRING },
  ],
});
```

Accepted Answer

At this point of time, the [L2 CDK construct for glue table](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/@aws-cdk_aws-glue.Table.html#partitionkeysspan-classapi-icon-api-icon-experimental-titlethis-api-element-is-experimental-it-may-change-without-noticespan-1) does not have a table properties parameter, which in turn means you won't be able to set partition projection directly on the base object.

One way you could handle this is through escape hatches. Using the docs example listed [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/cloudtrail-logs.html#create-cloudtrail-table-partition-projection) with one property for ex, the escape hatch would look like the following:

```
const cfnTable = cloudTrailTable.node.defaultChild as glue.CfnTable;
const tableInput = cfnTable.tableInput as glue.CfnTable.TableInputProperty;
tableInput.parameters = {
projection.enabled: 'true'
}
```

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