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Amazon Mechanical Turk to retire, stop accepting new customers

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing marketplace for human intelligence tasks, will be retired. The service has been moved to AWS's "Services in Maintenance" list, indicating its impending closure. MTurk will stop accepting new customers starting July 30, 2026, though existing users will continue to have access. AI

IMPACT Retirement of Amazon Mechanical Turk may impact the availability of human-labeled data for AI training.

RANK_REASON Product retirement announcement for a long-standing crowdsourcing service.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk to retire, stop accepting new customers

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

    “Earlier this week, # AWS added the # Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of “Services in Maintenance” – AWS-speak for services it will so

    “Earlier this week, # AWS added the # Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of “Services in Maintenance” – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will “be closed to new customers, effective July 30,…

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