How to found supported versions for Amazon SQS?

Question

How to found latest supported version for an AWS service? Not latest.

For example for Amazon SQS?

Answer 1

The current API version for SQS is 2012-11-05, as noted at the top of each page of the SQS API Reference.

Most services list their current API Version this way -- at the top of each page in the API Reference for that service.

The AWS service APIs are usually very stable, so AWS doesn't always bump the version when enhancements come out. That means the date 2012-11-05 for SQS doesn't imply that the API is completely unchanged for 5+ years. Instead, it means that no breaking changes have occurred to the API, and libraries written against any iteration of the 2012-11-05 SQS API will continue to work for all the features that particular library implements, going forward.

There is essentially never a need to specify an older version, nor a need to change the version you reference in any particular project of yours to a newer API version, unless you are trying to use a new feature that is only a available via the newer API release... which generally means your supporting libraries/SDK would need upgrades as well... so once you configure this, there's not often a need to change it.