Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk predates Amazon’s public cloud infrastructure business by a year. It serves as a crowdsourcing marketplace where users can post gigs that others […] The post Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Source: SiliconANGLE | 2026-07-05