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08 Apr 2020

How do you access a specific version of a parameter from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

This was a bit tricky to find and doesn't seem to be well documented.

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// version number below can be a number, i.e. 3 or a label
let params = {
  Name: "/path/to/parameter:<version-number>",
  WithDecryption: false,
};

ssm.getParameter(params, function (err, data) {
  if (err) console.error(err, err.stack);
  else console.log(data);
});