When an instance deletion encounters a blocking situation due to a volume being in use an error message should be provided to the user after a pre-defined time period. For example, instead of showing the task being in progress for 10+ minutes a reasonable timeout condition should be set (i.e. 2 minutes) and the cause of the block reported to the user. In addition, the processes blocking the deletion task should be reported to allow the user to remediate the issue and resubmit the request.