Example Security Lake queries for CloudTrail data

AWS CloudTrail tracks user activity and API usage in AWS services. Subscribers can query CloudTrail data to learn the following types of information:

Here are some example queries of CloudTrail data for AWS source version 1:

Unauthorized attempts against AWS services in the last 7 days

SELECT 
      time, 
      api.service.name, 
      api.operation, 
      api.response.error, 
      api.response.message, 
      unmapped['responseElements'], 
      cloud.region, 
      actor.user.uuid, 
      src_endpoint.ip, 
      http_request.user_agent
    FROM amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1.amazon_security_lake_table_us_east_1_cloud_trail_mgmt_1_0
    WHERE eventDay BETWEEN cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '7' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar) and cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '0' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar) 
      AND api.response.error in (
        'Client.UnauthorizedOperation',
        'Client.InvalidPermission.NotFound',
        'Client.OperationNotPermitted',
        'AccessDenied')
    ORDER BY time desc
    LIMIT 25

List of all CloudTrail activity from source IP 192.0.2.1 in the last 7 days

SELECT 
      api.request.uid, 
      time, 
      api.service.name, 
      api.operation, 
      cloud.region, 
      actor.user.uuid, 
      src_endpoint.ip, 
      http_request.user_agent
    FROM amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1.amazon_security_lake_table_us_east_1_cloud_trail_mgmt_1_0
    WHERE eventDay BETWEEN cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '7' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar) and cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '0' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar)
    AND src_endpoint.ip = '127.0.0.1.'
    ORDER BY time desc
    LIMIT 25

List of all IAM activity in the last 7 days

SELECT * 
    FROM amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1.amazon_security_lake_table_us_east_1_cloud_trail_mgmt_1_0
    WHERE eventDay BETWEEN cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '7' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar) and cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '0' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar)
      AND api.service.name = 'iam.amazonaws.com'
    ORDER BY time desc
    LIMIT 25

Instances where the credential AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE was used in the last 7 days

SELECT 
      actor.user.uid, 
      actor.user.uuid, 
      actor.user.account_uid, 
      cloud.region
    FROM amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1.amazon_security_lake_table_us_east_1_cloud_trail_mgmt_1_0
    WHERE eventDay BETWEEN cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '7' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar) and cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '0' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar)
      AND actor.user.credential_uid = 'AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE'
      LIMIT 25

List of failed CloudTrail records in the last 7 days

SELECT 
      actor.user.uid, 
      actor.user.uuid, 
      actor.user.account_uid, 
      cloud.region
    FROM amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1.amazon_security_lake_table_us_east_1_cloud_trail_mgmt_1_0
    WHERE status='failed' and eventDay BETWEEN cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '7' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar) and cast(date_format(current_timestamp - INTERVAL '0' day, '%Y%m%d%H') as varchar)
    ORDER BY time DESC
    LIMIT 25