Enterprise Edition architecture
Summary: PortSwigger's documentation describes Burp Suite Enterprise Edition as a component-based scanner deployment that can run entirely on a single machine, including the bundled database, where a machine with substantial resources should comfortably support up to 10 concurrent scans. At the other extreme, agents can run across many machines with an external database, scaling concurrent scans to be indefinitely large, and each agent machine and optionally the Enterprise server can host multiple logical agents, each occupied by a single scan at a time.
What you should know: The architecture sets a concrete ceiling: a single-machine deployment tops out at roughly 10 concurrent scans, so scan capacity is a direct function of how many agent machines and logical agents you are willing to stand up.
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