MSK upgrade from 2.8

You can upgrade to 3.6.0 from 2.8.2 tiered in place within the console: https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/msk/home?region=us-east-1#/clusters Navigate to the appropriate region, select the cluster, Action -> upgrade apache kafka version.

From the documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/msk/latest/developerguide/msk-tiered-storage.html The Amazon MSK cluster with tiered storage enabled must use version 3.6.0 or 2.8.2.tiered.