The following CREATE statement was issued in AWS Athena's Query Editor to create an external table for CloudFront access log acquisition.

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cf_log ( 
    request_date string, 
    request_time string, 
    x_edge_location string, sc_bytes int, 
    client_ip string, 
    cs_method string, 
    cs_host string, 
    cs_uri_stem string, 
    sc_status string, 
    cs_referer string, 
    user_agent string, 
    uri_query string, 
    cookie string, 
    x_edge_result_type string, 
    x_edge_request_id string, 
    x_host_header string, 
    cs_protocol string, 
    cs_bytes int, 
    time_taken DECIMAL(8,3), 
    x_forwarded_for string, 
    ssl_protocol string, 
    ssl_cipher string, 
    x_edge_response_result_type string, 
    cs-protocol-version string, 
    fle-status string, 
    fle-encrypted-fields string 
) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe' 
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( 
    'serialization.format' = '\t', 
    'field.delim' = '\t' 
) 
LOCATION 's3://{S3 bucket name}/' 
TBLPROPERTIES ( 
    'has_encrypted_data'='false', 
    'skip.header.line.count'='2' 
);

However, I get the following error and cannot create the table.

line 1:8: no viable alternative at input 'create external' (service: amazonathena; status code: 400; error code: invalidrequestexception; request id: {request id}

The cause was due to the presence of hyphenated strings in column names.

cs-protocol-version string, 
fle-status string, 
fle-encrypted-fields string

After correcting to underbar, it can now be executed without error.

cs_protocol_version string, 
fle_status string, 
fle_encrypted_fields string