Amazon announced it will no longer accept new customers for its Mechanical Turk platform. This change signals a shift in how Amazon supports human-in-the-loop AI tasks. Existing users can still access the service for now, but no new sign-ups are allowed.
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These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to introduce new features.”
In other words, Amazon isn’t completely pulling the plug, but the service is very much on life support.