title: AWS EBS Volume "in-use - optimizing"
body: <p>I have an EBS volume that displays a state of "in-use - optimizing(%)". What does this mean? What are the optimizations that AWS is performing? This is on a 300gb encrypted gp2 volume attached to a Windows Server 2012 R2 EC2 instance.</p>
  
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