diff --git a/setup/so-functions b/setup/so-functions
index 6d67e2f24..cb732ca3a 100755
--- a/setup/so-functions
+++ b/setup/so-functions
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ title() {
 	echo -e "\n-----------------------------\n $1\n-----------------------------\n" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1
 }
 
+fail_setup() {
+	error "Setup encounted an unrecoverable failure, exiting"
+	touch /root/failure
+	exit 1
+}
+
 logCmd() {
 	cmd=$1
 	info "Executing command: $cmd"
@@ -796,7 +802,7 @@ compare_main_nic_ip() {
 			EOM
 
 		  [[ -n $TESTING ]] || whiptail --title "$whiptail_title" --msgbox "$message" 11 75
-		  kill -SIGINT "$(ps --pid $$ -oppid=)"; exit 1
+		  kill -SIGINT "$(ps --pid $$ -oppid=)"; fail_setup
 	  fi
 	else
 		# Setup uses MAINIP, but since we ignore the equality condition when using a VPN 
@@ -921,9 +927,10 @@ create_repo() {
 
 detect_cloud() {
 	info "Testing if setup is running on a cloud instance..."
-	if dmidecode -s bios-version | grep -q amazon || \
-		dmidecode -s bios-vendor | grep -q Amazon || \
-		dmidecode -s bios-vendor | grep -q Google || \
+	if [ -f /etc/SOCLOUD ] || \
+	    dmidecode -s bios-version 2>&1 | grep -q amazon || \
+		dmidecode -s bios-vendor 2>&1 | grep -q Amazon || \
+		dmidecode -s bios-vendor 2>&1 | grep -q Google || \
 		[ -f /var/log/waagent.log ]; then
 
 		info "Detected a cloud installation..."
@@ -943,7 +950,7 @@ detect_os() {
 			pkgman="dnf"
 		else
 			info "We do not support the operating system you are trying to use."
-			exit 1
+			fail_setup
 		fi
 
 	elif [ -f /etc/os-release ]; then
@@ -953,12 +960,12 @@ detect_os() {
 			is_ubuntu=true
 		else
 			info "We do not support your current version of Ubuntu."
-			exit 1
+			fail_setup
 		fi
 
 	else
 		info "We were unable to determine if you are using a supported OS."
-		exit 1
+		fail_setup
 	fi
 
 	info "Found OS: $OS $OSVER"
@@ -981,7 +988,7 @@ download_elastic_agent_artifacts() {
 		  info "Elastic Agent source hash is good."
 		else
 		  info "Unable to download the Elastic Agent source files."
-		  exit 1
+		  fail_setup
 		fi
 
 		  logCmd "tar -xf /nsm/elastic-fleet/artifacts/elastic-agent_SO-$SOVERSION.tar.gz -C /nsm/elastic-fleet/artifacts/beats/elastic-agent/"
@@ -1012,18 +1019,18 @@ installer_prereq_packages() {
 	if [ "$OS" == ubuntu ]; then
 		# Print message to stdout so the user knows setup is doing something
 		info "Running apt-get update"
-		retry 150 10 "apt-get update" "" "Err:" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+		retry 150 10 "apt-get update" "" "Err:" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 		# Install network manager so we can do interface stuff
 		if ! command -v nmcli > /dev/null 2>&1; then
 			info "Installing network-manager"
-			retry 150 10 "apt-get -y install network-manager" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+			retry 150 10 "apt-get -y install network-manager" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 			{
 				systemctl enable NetworkManager
 				systemctl start NetworkManager
 			} >> "$setup_log" 2<&1
 		fi
 		if ! command -v curl > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-			retry 150 10 "apt-get -y install curl"  >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+			retry 150 10 "apt-get -y install curl"  >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 		fi
 	fi
 }
@@ -1746,7 +1753,7 @@ proxy_validate() {
 		error "Received error: $proxy_test_err"
 		if [[ -n $TESTING ]]; then
 			error "Exiting setup"
-			kill -SIGINT "$(ps --pid $$ -oppid=)"; exit 1
+			kill -SIGINT "$(ps --pid $$ -oppid=)"; fail_setup
 		fi
 	fi
 	return $ret
@@ -1817,7 +1824,7 @@ reinstall_init() {
 
 					# Stop the systemctl process trying to kill the service, show user a message, then exit setup
 					kill -9 $pid
-					exit 1
+					fail_setup
 				fi
 				
 				sleep 5
@@ -2020,7 +2027,7 @@ saltify() {
 	SALTVERSION=$(egrep 'version: [0-9]{4}' ../salt/salt/master.defaults.yaml | sed 's/^.*version: //')
 	if [[ $is_ubuntu ]]; then
 
-		DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive retry 150 20 "apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=\"--force-confdef\" -o Dpkg::Options::=\"--force-confold\" upgrade" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+		DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive retry 150 20 "apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=\"--force-confdef\" -o Dpkg::Options::=\"--force-confold\" upgrade" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 		update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.8 10 
 		local pkg_arr=(
 			'apache2-utils'
@@ -2032,7 +2039,7 @@ saltify() {
 			'netcat'
 			'jq'
 		)
-		retry 150 20 "apt-get -y install ${pkg_arr[*]}" || exit 1
+		retry 150 20 "apt-get -y install ${pkg_arr[*]}" || fail_setup
 
 		logCmd "mkdir -vp /etc/apt/keyrings"
 		#logCmd "wget -q --inet4-only -O /opt/so/gpg/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub https://repo.securityonion.net/file/securityonion-repo/ubuntu/20.04/amd64/salt/SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY.pub"
@@ -2053,9 +2060,9 @@ saltify() {
 		
 		# Ain't nothing but a GPG 
 
-		retry 150 20 "apt-get update" "" "Err:" || exit 1
-		retry 150 20 "apt-get -y install salt-common-$SALTVERSION salt-minion-$SALTVERSION" || exit 1
-		retry 150 20 "apt-mark hold salt-minion salt-common" || exit 1
+		retry 150 20 "apt-get update" "" "Err:" || fail_setup
+		retry 150 20 "apt-get -y install salt-common-$SALTVERSION salt-minion-$SALTVERSION" || fail_setup
+		retry 150 20 "apt-mark hold salt-minion salt-common" || fail_setup
 		#retry 150 20 "apt-get -y install python3-pip python3-dateutil python3-m2crypto python3-mysqldb python3-packaging python3-influxdb python3-lxml" || exit 1
 
 	fi
@@ -2122,7 +2129,7 @@ set_main_ip() {
 			info "MAINIP=$MAINIP"
 			info "MNIC_IP=$MNIC_IP"
 			whiptail_error_message "The management IP could not be determined. Please check the log at /root/sosetup.log and verify the network configuration. Select OK to exit."
-			exit 1
+			fail_setup
 		fi
 		sleep 1
 	done
@@ -2372,13 +2379,13 @@ ubuntu_check() {
 	if [[ $OS == "ubuntu" ]]; then
 		if [[ $waitforstate ]]; then
 			whiptail_ubuntu_notsupported
-			exit 1
+			fail_setup
 		else
 		    if [[ $UBUNTUINSTALL == "needtoupgrade" ]]; then
 				whiptail_ubuntu_warning
 			else
 				whiptail_ubuntu_notsupported
-				exit 1
+				fail_setup
 			fi
 		fi
 	fi
@@ -2397,9 +2404,9 @@ update_packages() {
 		logCmd "dnf -y update --allowerasing --exclude=salt*,wazuh*,docker*,containerd*"
 	else
 		info "Running apt-get update"
-		retry 150 10 "apt-get -y update" "" "Err:" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+		retry 150 10 "apt-get -y update" "" "Err:" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 		info "Running apt-get upgrade"
-		retry 150 10 "apt-get -y upgrade" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+		retry 150 10 "apt-get -y upgrade" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -2445,7 +2452,7 @@ wait_for_file() {
 }
 
 wait_for_salt_minion() {
-	retry 60 5 "journalctl -u salt-minion.service | grep 'Minion is ready to receive requests'" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || exit 1
+	retry 60 5 "journalctl -u salt-minion.service | grep 'Minion is ready to receive requests'" >> "$setup_log" 2>&1 || fail_setup
 }
 
 verify_setup() {
diff --git a/setup/so-setup b/setup/so-setup
index 4b7ff4d67..d8f07b36a 100755
--- a/setup/so-setup
+++ b/setup/so-setup
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 uid="$(id -u)"
 if [ "$uid" -ne 0 ]; then
 	echo "This script must be run using sudo!"
-	exit 1
+	fail_setup
 fi
 
 # Save the original argument array since we modify it
 original_args=("$@")
 
-cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit 255
+cd "$(dirname "$0")" || fail_setup
 
 echo "Getting started..."
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ if [[ "$setup_type" == 'iso' ]]; then
 		is_iso=true
 	else
 		echo "Only use 'so-setup iso' for an ISO install on Security Onion ISO images. Please run 'so-setup network' instead."
-		exit 1
+		fail_setup
 	fi
 fi
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ catch() {
 	info "Fatal error occurred at $1 in so-setup, failing setup."
 	grep --color=never "ERROR" "$setup_log" > "$error_log"
 	whiptail_setup_failed
-	exit 1
+	fail_setup
 }
 
 # Add the progress function for manager node type installs
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ case "$setup_type" in
 		;;
 	*)
 		error "Invalid install type, must be 'iso', 'network' or 'analyst'."
-		exit 1
+		fail_setup
 		;;
 esac