API call to get latest version

[NothinRandom]

On other AWS services (e.g. codedeploy, ssm, etc), there's a api that you can call to retrieve the latest version of the agent. This way, you make the call and then determine if you need to update the agent. Is there a similar call that I can use something like cURL to determine the latest release?

For example, you can make this call to get latest version of SSM curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/VERSION

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

Hi @NothinRandom, thanks for reaching out. I don't believe AWS CLI supports that behavior specifically. However, if you are just interested in being able to get the most recent version with a single cURL command, you could use the changelog (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/aws-cli/v2/CHANGELOG.rst) and use cURL to just read the version of the most recent entry in the changelog. That command would look something like curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/aws-cli/v2/CHANGELOG.rst --range 30-43. Is that close enough to what you're looking for?

[NothinRandom]

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for your reply! Ah ok, this is what I am currently doing, but it doesn't feel right; thus, I asked here as I haven't found a better way to determine latest version like the other AWS agents. It does provide what I need, but something a tad more "official" feels right. It would be great if the AWS cli team can make this a feature in their later builds. I guess I'm going to close for now since there isn't a better way to determine latest version.

[RyanFitzSimmonsAK]

Thanks for following up. In that case, the best path forward would probably be to submit a feature request. The template will make sure the team has the type and level of detail required to evaluate a potential feature. Thanks!

[NothinRandom]

Thanks Ryan! I went ahead and created a feature request via #7792.

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