United StatesRetail and e-commerce2025 – ongoingAmazon
World Wide Watch for VAT regulatory monitoring
Amazon cut the time to assess regulatory updates from 26 minutes to 2 minutes with generative AI
Problem
Amazon's tax teams needed to track VAT changes across jurisdictions and assess their business implications. Growing workloads made regulatory monitoring time-consuming.
Approach
Amazon Finance Technology and the VAT Policy and Planning team launched World Wide Watch. It used Amazon Bedrock to summarize changes and potential impacts, with embedding models and search tools grouping related updates.
Results
Takeaway
The system shortened the work needed to turn regulatory updates into decision-making information for tax teams.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Retail and e-commerce
- Business function
- Finance, risk and legal
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Vendor case study
Sources
Source summaries
AWS reported that World Wide Watch reduced the average time to gain regulatory insights from 26 minutes to 2 minutes per update. The page carries no date; the Internet Archive first saved it on November 18, 2025.
Full details are in the original sources.