diff --git a/llmfoundry/callbacks/hf_checkpointer.py b/llmfoundry/callbacks/hf_checkpointer.py
index 14ccae7191..004b6df09d 100644
--- a/llmfoundry/callbacks/hf_checkpointer.py
+++ b/llmfoundry/callbacks/hf_checkpointer.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 
 from llmfoundry.models.mpt import MPTConfig, MPTForCausalLM
 from llmfoundry.models.utils import init_empty_weights
+from llmfoundry.utils.exceptions import StoragePermissionError
 from llmfoundry.utils.huggingface_hub_utils import \
     edit_files_for_hf_compatibility
 
@@ -297,7 +298,16 @@ def run_event(self, event: Event, state: State, logger: Logger) -> None:
                     + f'Got {type(state.model)} instead.',
                 )
             if self.remote_ud is not None:
-                self.remote_ud.init(state, logger)
+                try:
+                    self.remote_ud.init(state, logger)
+                except PermissionError as e:
+                    if 'Client Error' in str(
+                        e,
+                    ):  # thrown from composer.utils._wrap_mlflow_exceptions
+                        raise StoragePermissionError(
+                            'Error when write to save_folder.',
+                        ) from e
+                    raise e
                 state.callbacks.append(self.remote_ud)
 
             if self.mlflow_registered_model_name is not None:
diff --git a/llmfoundry/utils/exceptions.py b/llmfoundry/utils/exceptions.py
index c89e13749c..e8de7ac7eb 100644
--- a/llmfoundry/utils/exceptions.py
+++ b/llmfoundry/utils/exceptions.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
     'MisconfiguredHfDatasetError',
     'DatasetTooSmallError',
     'RunTimeoutError',
+    'StoragePermissionError',
     'UCNotEnabledError',
     'DeltaTableNotFoundError',
 ]
@@ -528,6 +529,21 @@ def __str__(self):
         return self.message
 
 
+class StoragePermissionError(UserError):
+    """Error thrown due to invalid permissions accessing blob storage."""
+
+    def __init__(self, message: str) -> None:
+        self.message = message
+        super().__init__(message)
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        # Return a tuple of class, a tuple of arguments, and optionally state
+        return (StoragePermissionError, (self.message,))
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.message
+
+
 class UCNotEnabledError(UserError):
     """Error thrown when user does not have UC enabled on their cluster."""