Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk ^58%

TechCrunch - By Anthony Ha - 7/5/2026, 5:43 PM

Availability Heuristic 23.1% - Anecdotal 21.5% - Negativity Bias 20.7%

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, “AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements... more