Mechanical Turk Closes: How to Move Labeling to Roboflow

Amazon Mechanical Turk is scheduled to close permanently on September 30, 2026, ending its public workforce option for Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI, while Ground Truth Plus support ended June 30 and related services stopped accepting new customers in July. Users relying on these services are advised to export Ground Truth output manifests and source images from S3 before the deadline, then complete reviews, approvals, rejections, and bonus payments for existing HITs by October 30, after which unreviewed work will auto-approve. Roboflow presents its platform as a migration option because it can import SageMaker Ground Truth manifests and images without relabeling, preserve existing annotations, and export datasets in formats including COCO, YOLO, and Pascal VOC. The post also promotes AI-assisted labeling through foundation models, segmentation tools, and model-based pre-annotation, followed by human review from domain experts, and positions Roboflow as a broader computer-vision platform for training and deploying models after migration.

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