# Amazon Private Certificate Authority Documentation

Amazon Private Certificate Authority (Amazon Private CA ) is a hosted private certificate authority service to issue and revoke digital certificates deployed in your organization's private PKI, including on Amazon managed resources and in the Internet of Things.

## Amazon Private CA

- [User Guide](/en_us/privateca/latest/userguide/PcaWelcome.html): Provides conceptual overviews and explains how to create a private CA and use it to issue certificates.
- [API Reference](/en_us/privateca/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html): Describes the API operations available for Amazon Private CA along with sample requests, responses, and errors.
- [Amazon Private CA in the Amazon CLI Reference](/en_us/cli/latest/reference/acm-pca/index.html): Describes the Amazon Private CA commands that are available in the Amazon Command Line Interface.

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