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AWS to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026
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AWS announced it will close Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced platform that outsourced tasks to human workers since 2005, on September 30, 2026, following an assessment.
Teams that rely on Mechanical Turk for distributing tasks to human workers will need to migrate to alternative platforms before the service becomes completely unavailable. The shutdown removes a long-running option for human computation workflows that some systems may depend on.
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Mechanical Turk will cease operations on September 30, 2026.
The service, launched in 2005, allowed requesters to outsource tasks to human workers.
AWS said the decision followed an assessment but provided no further detail on the reasoning.
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