def is_remote_session(spark: Optional[SparkSession] = None) -> bool:
result = False
if (_spark := spark or get_active_session()) and check_if_pyspark_connect_is_supported():
# result = True if _spark.conf.get("spark.remote", None) else False # type: ignore
from pyspark.sql.connect.session import SparkSession as ConnectSparkSession
result = isinstance(_spark, ConnectSparkSession)
return result