Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for successfully transforming its legacy healthcare data and analytics infrastructure into a modern, scalable, and high-performance environment using AWS native services. This end-to-end modernization effort enabled CCNC to dramatically improve data quality, processing speed, and operational agility, establishing a cloud-native foundation to better serve patients, providers, and partners across the state.

The project was completed on time and within budget, showcasing CCNC’s disciplined approach to planning, execution, and innovation in a complex and highly regulated healthcare landscape.

Project Overview
The transformation centered on migrating a fragmented and rigid legacy data architecture — plagued by inefficiencies and technical debt — to a unified, modern data analytics technology stack built entirely on AWS-native tooling. CCNC’s goals included:

• Re-architecting the data pipeline to support faster, more reliable processing 
• Improving data quality and governance 
• Supporting real-time and large-scale analytics across hundreds of millions of healthcare claims records 
• Delivering enhanced scalability and flexibility for evolving use cases and future growth 

By using cloud-native data engineering best practices, CCNC implemented a platform that supports high-volume data ingestion, transformation, storage, and reporting with newfound speed and efficiency.

Challenges Addressed: Complexity, Rigidity, and Delays
Before the migration, CCNC’s legacy data platform suffered from several limitations:

• Siloed data processing environments that hindered end-to-end transparency and introduced inconsistencies 
• Long processing times — sometimes taking hours or even days — to execute large batch jobs and produce analytics 
• Difficulty tracing and resolving data quality issues, resulting in long lead times for remediation 
• Limited agility to release new features or adapt to emerging analytics requirements 

These constraints significantly impacted CCNC’s ability to deliver timely and high-quality data to internal users, clinical stakeholders, and external partners.

Outcomes: Measurable Gains in Performance, Quality, and Agility
CCNC’s cloud migration and modernization initiative produced transformative results:

• Greatly reduced data processing time, from hours or days to just minutes 
• 50% improvement in issue resolution time, enabling faster root cause analysis and remediation of data anomalies 
• Accelerated feature development cycles, allowing for faster deployment of analytics capabilities and dashboard enhancements 
• Positive feedback from both internal teams and external stakeholders, particularly around the reliability and accuracy of data delivery 
• Improved governance and standardization of data pipelines and storage frameworks, laying the foundation for long-term compliance and quality assurance 

A New Standard for Healthcare Data Operations
By embracing AWS and modern data engineering best practices, Community Care of North Carolina has established a cloud platform capable of supporting the fast-moving, data-rich demands of modern healthcare. The new environment delivers speed, scale, and trust, empowering CCNC to serve its members and partners with greater precision and responsiveness.