diff --git a/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md b/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
index 3e1502b75..a45073881 100644
--- a/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### New Features and Improvements
 
 * Added support for passing additional kwargs to `WorkspaceClient().serving_endpoints.get_open_ai_client()` ([#1025](https://github.com/databricks/databricks-sdk-py/pull/1025)). Users can now pass standard OpenAI client parameters like `timeout` and `max_retries` when creating an OpenAI client for Databricks Model Serving.
+* Enable remove DBUtils in Shared Clusters ([#1033](https://github.com/databricks/databricks-sdk-py/pull/1033)).
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/databricks/sdk/__init__.py b/databricks/sdk/__init__.py
index a426eebfb..62534b58b 100755
--- a/databricks/sdk/__init__.py
+++ b/databricks/sdk/__init__.py
@@ -167,9 +167,14 @@ def _make_dbutils(config: client.Config):
         return dbutils.RemoteDbUtils(config)
 
     # We are in runtime, so we can use the runtime dbutils
-    from databricks.sdk.runtime import dbutils as runtime_dbutils
+    try:
+        from databricks.sdk.runtime import dbutils as runtime_dbutils
 
-    return runtime_dbutils
+        return runtime_dbutils
+    except ImportError:
+        # Expected on shared clusters where runtime dbutils access is restricted
+        _LOG.debug("Runtime dbutils not available, falling back to RemoteDbUtils (likely shared cluster)")
+        return dbutils.RemoteDbUtils(config)
 
 
 def _make_files_client(apiClient: client.ApiClient, config: client.Config):