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Amazon Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers in 2026

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) will discontinue its Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service for new customers starting July 30, 2026. While existing users can continue to access the platform, the move signals a potential sunsetting of the crowdsourcing marketplace. AI

IMPACT This discontinuation may affect the availability of crowdsourced data for AI training and research.

RANK_REASON Product discontinuation announcement for a specific service.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers in 2026

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Is # Amazon going to sunset # mTurk ? As of July 30 2026, # AWS will no longer accept new customers (requestors). "Existing customers can continue to use the se

    Is # Amazon going to sunset # mTurk ? As of July 30 2026, # AWS will no longer accept new customers (requestors). "Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal." https:// docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ latest/dg/sms-workforce-management-public.html # cogSci # psyc…

    LINKS docs.aws.amazon.com/…/sms-workforce-manag… docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker

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