diff --git a/terraform/context.go b/terraform/context.go
index 659772893..0babb455e 100644
--- a/terraform/context.go
+++ b/terraform/context.go
@@ -460,6 +460,15 @@ func (c *Context) applyWalkFn() depgraph.WalkFunc {
 		// Force the resource state type to be our type
 		rs.Type = r.State.Type
 
+		// Force the "id" attribute to be our ID
+		if rs.ID != "" {
+			if rs.Attributes == nil {
+				rs.Attributes = make(map[string]string)
+			}
+
+			rs.Attributes["id"] = rs.ID
+		}
+
 		var errs []error
 		for ak, av := range rs.Attributes {
 			// If the value is the unknown variable value, then it is an error.
diff --git a/terraform/context_test.go b/terraform/context_test.go
index 339d2fc31..c591390d1 100644
--- a/terraform/context_test.go
+++ b/terraform/context_test.go
@@ -542,6 +542,56 @@ func TestContextApply_hook(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestContextApply_idAttr(t *testing.T) {
+	c := testConfig(t, "apply-idattr")
+	p := testProvider("aws")
+	ctx := testContext(t, &ContextOpts{
+		Config: c,
+		Providers: map[string]ResourceProviderFactory{
+			"aws": testProviderFuncFixed(p),
+		},
+	})
+
+	p.ApplyFn = func(s *ResourceState, d *ResourceDiff) (*ResourceState, error) {
+		result := s.MergeDiff(d)
+		result.ID = "foo"
+		result.Attributes = map[string]string{
+			"id": "bar",
+		}
+
+		return result, nil
+	}
+	p.DiffFn = func(*ResourceState, *ResourceConfig) (*ResourceDiff, error) {
+		return &ResourceDiff{
+			Attributes: map[string]*ResourceAttrDiff{
+				"num": &ResourceAttrDiff{
+					New: "bar",
+				},
+			},
+		}, nil
+	}
+
+	if _, err := ctx.Plan(nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	state, err := ctx.Apply()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	rs, ok := state.Resources["aws_instance.foo"]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("not in state")
+	}
+	if rs.ID != "foo" {
+		t.Fatalf("bad: %#v", rs.ID)
+	}
+	if rs.Attributes["id"] != "foo" {
+		t.Fatalf("bad: %#v", rs.Attributes)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestContextApply_output(t *testing.T) {
 	c := testConfig(t, "apply-output")
 	p := testProvider("aws")
diff --git a/terraform/state.go b/terraform/state.go
index 3348beb55..0d5a171a7 100644
--- a/terraform/state.go
+++ b/terraform/state.go
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ func (s *State) String() string {
 
 		attrKeys := make([]string, 0, len(rs.Attributes))
 		for ak, _ := range rs.Attributes {
+			if ak == "id" {
+				continue
+			}
+
 			attrKeys = append(attrKeys, ak)
 		}
 		sort.Strings(attrKeys)
diff --git a/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-idattr/main.tf b/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-idattr/main.tf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca956330c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-idattr/main.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+resource "aws_instance" "foo" {
+}
diff --git a/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-unknown/main.tf b/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-unknown/main.tf
index 7eec0bf20..ee1564b7a 100644
--- a/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-unknown/main.tf
+++ b/terraform/test-fixtures/apply-unknown/main.tf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 resource "aws_instance" "foo" {
     num = "2"
-    compute = "id"
+    compute = "foo"
 }