_This issue was originally opened by @joshuaspence as hashicorp/terraform#6080. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below._
Changing the identifier parameter of an aws_db_instance resource forces a new resource. I think that this is a bug because I can change this field through the AWS console.
@stack72 I can confirm this is still present in Terraform 0.10.6
found duplicate #507
can close this "duplicate" #507
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