diff --git a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws/core/Aws.h b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws/core/Aws.h
index 03f965a3e6c..5c27e75a84c 100644
--- a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws/core/Aws.h
+++ b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws/core/Aws.h
@@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ namespace Aws
          * Basic usage can be found in aws-cpp-sdk-core-tests/monitoring/MonitoringTest.cpp
          */
         MonitoringOptions monitoringOptions;
+
+        struct SDKVersion
+        {
+            unsigned char major = AWS_SDK_VERSION_MAJOR;
+            unsigned char minor = AWS_SDK_VERSION_MINOR;
+            unsigned short patch = AWS_SDK_VERSION_PATCH;
+        } sdkVersion;
     };
 
     /*
diff --git a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/Aws.cpp b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/Aws.cpp
index 9cf5c0e14cd..236cb948dee 100644
--- a/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/Aws.cpp
+++ b/src/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/Aws.cpp
@@ -153,6 +153,21 @@ namespace Aws
         Aws::Internal::InitEC2MetadataClient();
         Aws::Monitoring::InitMonitoring(options.monitoringOptions.customizedMonitoringFactory_create_fn);
         Aws::Utils::ComponentRegistry::InitComponentRegistry();
+
+        if(options.sdkVersion.major != AWS_SDK_VERSION_MAJOR ||
+            options.sdkVersion.minor != AWS_SDK_VERSION_MINOR ||
+            options.sdkVersion.patch != AWS_SDK_VERSION_PATCH)
+        {
+            AWS_LOGSTREAM_ERROR(ALLOCATION_TAG, "AWS-SDK-CPP version mismatch detected.");
+            AWS_LOGSTREAM_INFO(ALLOCATION_TAG, "Initialized AWS-SDK-CPP with version "
+              << AWS_SDK_VERSION_MAJOR << "." << AWS_SDK_VERSION_MINOR << "." << AWS_SDK_VERSION_PATCH << "; "
+              << "However, the caller application had been built for AWS-SDK-CPP version "
+              << (int) options.sdkVersion.major << "."
+              << (int) options.sdkVersion.minor << "."
+              << (int) options.sdkVersion.patch << "; "
+              << "ABI is not guaranteed, please don't mix different versions of built libraries "
+              << "and different versions of headers and corresponding built libraries.");
+        }
     }
 
     void ShutdownAPI(const SDKOptions& options)