diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8a832ab94..905e35198 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Changes are grouped as follows
 - `Fixed` for any bug fixes.
 - `Security` in case of vulnerabilities.
 
+## [6.24.0] - 2023-09-12
+### Fixed
+- Bugfix for `FilesAPI.upload` and `FilesAPI.upload_bytes` not raising an error on file contents upload failure. Now `CogniteFileUploadError` is raised based on upload response.
+
 ## [6.23.0] - 2023-09-08
 ### Added
 - Supporting for deleting constraints and indexes on containers.
diff --git a/cognite/client/_api/files.py b/cognite/client/_api/files.py
index 0b459fce9..4bb90c596 100644
--- a/cognite/client/_api/files.py
+++ b/cognite/client/_api/files.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     LabelFilter,
     TimestampRange,
 )
+from cognite.client.exceptions import CogniteFileUploadError
 from cognite.client.utils._auxiliary import find_duplicates
 from cognite.client.utils._identifier import Identifier, IdentifierSequence
 from cognite.client.utils._validation import process_asset_subtree_ids, process_data_set_ids
@@ -570,9 +571,15 @@ def upload_bytes(
         returned_file_metadata = res.json()
         upload_url = returned_file_metadata["uploadUrl"]
         headers = {"Content-Type": file_metadata.mime_type}
-        self._http_client_with_retry.request(
+        upload_response = self._http_client_with_retry.request(
             "PUT", upload_url, data=content, timeout=self._config.file_transfer_timeout, headers=headers
         )
+        if not upload_response.ok:
+            raise CogniteFileUploadError(
+                message=upload_response.text,
+                code=upload_response.status_code,
+            )
+
         return FileMetadata._load(returned_file_metadata)
 
     def retrieve_download_urls(
diff --git a/cognite/client/_version.py b/cognite/client/_version.py
index 121bfd5a7..f04e4315f 100644
--- a/cognite/client/_version.py
+++ b/cognite/client/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "6.23.0"
+__version__ = "6.24.0"
 __api_subversion__ = "V20220125"
diff --git a/cognite/client/exceptions.py b/cognite/client/exceptions.py
index d1a01309c..af8d6054c 100644
--- a/cognite/client/exceptions.py
+++ b/cognite/client/exceptions.py
@@ -61,6 +61,19 @@ class CogniteReadTimeout(CogniteException):
     pass
 
 
+class CogniteFileUploadError(CogniteException):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        message: str,
+        code: int,
+    ) -> None:
+        self.message = message
+        self.code = code
+
+    def __str__(self) -> str:
+        return f"{self.message} | code: {self.code}"
+
+
 class CogniteMultiException(CogniteException):
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1fd0ecd22..694284493 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "cognite-sdk"
 
-version = "6.23.0"
+version = "6.24.0"
 
 description = "Cognite Python SDK"
 readme = "README.md"