looking for information on how to confirm which version of Cassandra is running on Astra?
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It runs a custom version of Cassandra, closer to the Cassandra 4.0, with some functionality from the DataStax Enterprise, like Storage-Attached Indexes, etc.
If you create a database, and open the CQL console you'll see following message: