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Can I use Mechanical Turk with my Cornell AWS account?

• Mechanical Turk requester accounts can use the same email address and password as AWS root accounts. However, in order to keep these concerns separate, we recommend using different email accounts for each of AWS, Amazon.com retail store, and Mechanical Turk. 
• MTurk accounts can be linked to AWS accounts for billing purposes. MTurk accounts so linked have their charges included in the charges for the AWS account. Please contact cloud-support@cornell.edu to link your MTurk account.
  • Only one MTurk account can be linked to each AWS account. If that one Turk account is ever closed, the AWS account to which is it linked can never have another Turk account associated with it
  • Only one MTurk account can be linked to each AWS account.
  • In order to establish this linkage, the root credentials for the AWS account must be used and so only the Cloud Team can take this step. Please contact cloud-support@cornell.edu to link your MTurk account.
• For MTurk Requester accounts created after August 2023, the Turk Requester web console is ONLY available using the root login for the AWS account.   Since Cornell AWS customers cannot access the root user account for their AWS accounts, they must use the API to manage Turk resources. Alternatively, they can use third-party tools/software that use the API on their behalf to manage Turk resources. For example:
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools
  • https://www.cloudresearch.com/products/turkprime-mturk-toolkit/
• If your Cornell team/project only needs access to MTurk and not AWS, we can accommodate you. We do this by creating an AWS account and a linked Turk account but not providing access to the AWS account.

Can I use AWS Credits to pay for Mechanical Turk?

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