Is there a generic way to handle AWS exceptions in a try/catch block without having to use the service specific exception

For example using the PHP service sdk:

try {
    $s3Client->createBucket(array(
        'Bucket' => 'my-bucket'
    ));
} catch (\Aws\S3\Exception\S3Exception $e) {
    // The AWS error code (e.g., )
    echo $e->getAwsErrorCode() . "\n";
    // The bucket couldn't be created
    echo $e->getMessage() . "\n";
}

Note I have to use \Aws\S3\Exception\S3Exception

I have tried using the catch with AmazonServiceException and AwsException but neither of them catch the error I force. I can just do catch( exception $e) but then the functions getMessage etc don't work.