diff --git a/Assets/Editor/UI/releaseTranslations.py b/Assets/Editor/UI/releaseTranslations.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 9ab0345d98..0000000000
--- a/Assets/Editor/UI/releaseTranslations.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# All or portions of this file Copyright (c) Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates or
-# its licensors.
-#
-# For complete copyright and license terms please see the LICENSE at the root of this
-# distribution (the "License"). All use of this software is governed by the License,
-# or, if provided, by the license below or the license accompanying this file. Do not
-# remove or modify any license notices. This file is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-#
-import os
-
-os.chdir('qml')
-startDir = os.getcwd()
-
-# since it's a .exe file it will only work on windows, but we may as well
-# construct the path in a platform-independent way.
-lreleaseCmd = os.path.join(startDir, '..', '..', '..',
-                          'Code', 'SDKs', 'Qt', 'x64', 'bin', 'lrelease.exe ')
-
-print(startDir)
-
-# Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese
-targetLanguages = ['ko', 'ja', 'zh_CN']
-
-for lang in targetLanguages:
-    os.chdir(startDir)
-    tgtLang = '-target-language ' + lang
-    os.system(lreleaseCmd + 'this_' + lang + '.ts')
-
-    for fileName in os.listdir():
-        if not fileName.endswith(".ts"):
-            continue
-
-        os.system(lreleaseCmd + ' ' + fileName)
-
-        print(('Finished processing: ' + fileName))
diff --git a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/CMakeLists.txt b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/CMakeLists.txt
index 4d03d30923..588502954d 100644
--- a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ if (PAL_TRAIT_BUILD_HOST_TOOLS)
 
     ly_add_target_files(
         TARGETS LmbrCentral.Editor
-        FILES ${QT_LRELEASE_EXECUTABLE}
+        FILES ${lrelease_files}
     )
 
     # by default, load the above "Gem::LmbrCentral.Editor" module in dev tools
diff --git a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Linux/lrelease_linux.cmake b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Linux/lrelease_linux.cmake
index 41eaf4a47a..70fbecf851 100644
--- a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Linux/lrelease_linux.cmake
+++ b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Linux/lrelease_linux.cmake
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ add_custom_command(TARGET LmbrCentral.Editor POST_BUILD
     COMMENT "Patching lrelease..."
     VERBATIM
 )
+
+set(lrelease_files
+    ${QT_LRELEASE_EXECUTABLE}
+)
diff --git a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Mac/lrelease_mac.cmake b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Mac/lrelease_mac.cmake
index 4d5680a30d..53fcdfa02a 100644
--- a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Mac/lrelease_mac.cmake
+++ b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Mac/lrelease_mac.cmake
@@ -8,3 +8,7 @@
 # remove or modify any license notices. This file is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 #
+
+set(lrelease_files
+    ${QT_LRELEASE_EXECUTABLE}
+)
diff --git a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Windows/lrelease_windows.cmake b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Windows/lrelease_windows.cmake
index 4d5680a30d..dda1715d76 100644
--- a/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Windows/lrelease_windows.cmake
+++ b/Gems/LmbrCentral/Code/Platform/Windows/lrelease_windows.cmake
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@
 # remove or modify any license notices. This file is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 #
+
+set(lrelease_files
+    ${QT_LRELEASE_EXECUTABLE}
+    ${QT_PATH}/bin/Qt5Core.dll # this is a dependency of lrelease. Even in debug we use the release version
+)