-- Background: CloudTrail logs contain a significant amount of data about different actions that occur in your AWS account but can be challenging to deal with for a couple reasons:
--   1. Each file is a single JSON object with a list of of records in a "Records" key
--   2. The schema varies wildly depending on the type of AWS service and actions that are being used.

-- CloudTrail logs typically go to: s3://<bucket>/AWSLogs/<accountid>/CloudTrail/<region>/<year>/<month>/<day>/<accountid-region-some-unique-id>.json.gz"

-- To use this query, you need to load the httpfs extension and either set the following s3_ variables or ensure your standard AWS secret key environment variables are set

-- install https;
-- load https;
-- SET s3_region='us-west-2';
-- SET s3_access_key_id='';
-- SET s3_secret_access_key='';

-- The following query returns the first 10 logs from today.
WITH parsed_logs AS (
    select UNNEST(Records, recursive := True)
    from read_json_auto(
        "s3://<bucket>/AWSLogs/<accountid>/CloudTrail/<region>/" || strftime(now(), "%Y/%m/%d") || "/*.json.gz" ,
        union_by_name=True
    )
)
SELECT * FROM parsed_logs LIMIT 10;
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