Some services use this protocol (CloudWatch) and this is required to generate code See https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/blob/6ce549c3efe117e76f1f878ae8463d95b838ef9d/src/data/monitoring/2010-08-01/api-2.json See PR for protocol implementation in AWS SDK https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/pull/3223