# Program management accounts
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A program management account (PMA) is an AWS management account that you use to manage your AWS Channel Program participation and relationships with customer or distribution seller AWS accounts. Each PMA is associated with a single AWS Channel Program (AWS Solution Provider, AWS Distribution, or AWS Distribution Seller).

**Topics**
+ [Creating a program management account](creating-pma.md)
+ [Activating a program management account](activating-pma.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Partner Central. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query partner-central` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).