I thought MT was being deprecated if not already?
It’s not that baffling Amazon has something like 70k+ engineers worldwide. Never worked there myself but in large orgs things sometimes get lost in the shuffle.
I don’t think timelines were shared but this reads like a pretty good case of building an MVP and then lowering the cost once it’s proven. One of the whole value props for LLMs from a ML perspective is being able to get something out the door a lot quicker than you would otherwise.