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Amazon stops onboarding new Mechanical Turk customers
Source headline: Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Threat level
Medium
Signal strength
65/100
Source confidence
1 source
Published
1 week ago
Intelligence Summary
Amazon will cease accepting new customer accounts for Mechanical Turk. Existing customers can continue to use the platform, but no new sign-ups will be allowed. The change signals a continued shift away from Mechanical Turk as an ingestion and task marketplace. For businesses planning to source tasks or labor through the service, this may force timeline changes and alternative sourcing. Users should review current contracts, workflows, and contingency options before access plans depend on future onboarding. Developers and vendors relying on MTurk should prepare for migration paths to other platforms.
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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
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