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Hi Community, I have a question about the prefect agents.  If I have a prefect agent running on a machine can it run concurrent flows or does prefect need to have 2 agents running simultaneously to have concurrent flows running?

One agent can kick off multiple concurrent flows

okay, I think this might solve my problem with the issue I opened last Friday

The only reason to have multiple agents is if you need to run flows with different platform configurations and those differences can't be configured on the flows-side by a run-config: <https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow_config/run_configs.html>

Regarding that issue, we've identified the (rare) race condition that could lead to that issue, and should have a fix incoming. Prefect Cloud _shouldn't_ have issues with multiple identical agents running (barring the bug you found), but there also isn't really a need for multiple identical agents.

okay, this makes sense, thanks for finding this issue, and I will turn off the 2nd agents for each one of projects I am running since it is not required.