This solution brief illustrates how, with Google Cloud™ N2 VM instances enabled by 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Apache Spark can analyze more data per second with 1.51x the throughput, optimize data analytics and ML in the cloud, and accelerate workloads with Intel® Optane™ persistent memory. Please contact RetoMarket for more information about enabling Google Cloud N2 VM with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.