Apache 2 license explicitly does grant the right to sublicense. See §2.
I think this important bit is sublicense v.s. relicense, where in sublicense case, you have to retain the original terms carried for the original code.
Now, Elastic relicensed the whole software stack under SSDL. So to integrate any parts AWS done, they need to license Elasticsearch back to some mixture of SSDL and ASL, which would be weird.