diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index df4c651810..d9839129aa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ FEATURES:
 * **New Resource:** `awscc_ec2_host`
 * **New Resource:** `awscc_lightsail_disk`
 
+BUG FIXES:
+
+* Correctly create resource with CloudFormation schema defined top-level `id` attribute ([#229](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-awscc/issues/229))
+
 ## [0.1.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-awscc/releases/tag/v0.1.0) (September 30, 2021)
 
 Public Technical Preview.
diff --git a/internal/aws/ec2/vpc_resource_test.go b/internal/aws/ec2/vpc_resource_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2016dc0cb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/aws/ec2/vpc_resource_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package ec2_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/resource"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-awscc/internal/acctest"
+)
+
+func TestAccAWSEC2VPC_CidrBlock(t *testing.T) {
+	td := acctest.NewTestData(t, "AWS::EC2::VPC", "awscc_ec2_vpc", "test")
+	resourceName := td.ResourceName
+	rName := td.RandomName()
+	cidrBlock := "10.0.0.0/16"
+
+	td.ResourceTest(t, []resource.TestStep{
+		{
+			Config: testAccAWSEC2VPCCidrBlockConfig(&td, rName, cidrBlock),
+			Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+				td.CheckExistsInAWS(),
+				resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "cidr_block", cidrBlock),
+				resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "tags.#", "1"),
+				resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "tags.0.key", "Name"),
+				resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(resourceName, "tags.0.value", rName),
+			),
+		},
+		{
+			ResourceName:      td.ResourceName,
+			ImportState:       true,
+			ImportStateVerify: true,
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func testAccAWSEC2VPCCidrBlockConfig(td *acctest.TestData, rName, cidrBlock string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(`
+resource %[1]q %[2]q {
+  cidr_block = %[4]q
+
+  tags = [
+    {
+      key   = "Name"
+      value = %[3]q
+    }
+  ]
+}
+`, td.TerraformResourceType, td.ResourceLabel, rName, cidrBlock)
+}
diff --git a/internal/generic/resource.go b/internal/generic/resource.go
index ae9a363e29..edee186474 100644
--- a/internal/generic/resource.go
+++ b/internal/generic/resource.go
@@ -455,12 +455,14 @@ func (r *resource) Create(ctx context.Context, request tfsdk.CreateResourceReque
 		return
 	}
 
+	id := aws.ToString(progressEvent.Identifier)
+
 	// Produce a wholly-known new State by determining the final values for any attributes left unknown in the planned state.
 	response.State.Raw = request.Plan.Raw
 
 	// Set the synthetic "id" attribute.
 	if r.resourceType.syntheticIDAttribute {
-		err = r.setId(ctx, aws.ToString(progressEvent.Identifier), &response.State)
+		err = r.setId(ctx, id, &response.State)
 
 		if err != nil {
 			response.Diagnostics = append(response.Diagnostics, ResourceIdentifierNotSetDiag(err))
@@ -469,7 +471,7 @@ func (r *resource) Create(ctx context.Context, request tfsdk.CreateResourceReque
 		}
 	}
 
-	diags := r.populateUnknownValues(ctx, &response.State)
+	diags := r.populateUnknownValues(ctx, id, &response.State)
 
 	if diags.HasError() {
 		response.Diagnostics.Append(diags...)
@@ -656,7 +658,7 @@ func (r *resource) Update(ctx context.Context, request tfsdk.UpdateResourceReque
 	// Produce a wholly-known new State by determining the final values for any attributes left unknown in the planned state.
 	response.State.Raw = request.Plan.Raw
 
-	diags := r.populateUnknownValues(ctx, &response.State)
+	diags := r.populateUnknownValues(ctx, id, &response.State)
 
 	if diags.HasError() {
 		response.Diagnostics.Append(diags...)
@@ -796,7 +798,7 @@ func (r *resource) setEmptyAttributes(ctx context.Context, state *tfsdk.State) e
 }
 
 // populateUnknownValues populates and unknown values in State with values from the current resource description.
-func (r *resource) populateUnknownValues(ctx context.Context, state *tfsdk.State) diag.Diagnostics {
+func (r *resource) populateUnknownValues(ctx context.Context, id string, state *tfsdk.State) diag.Diagnostics {
 	var diags diag.Diagnostics
 
 	unknowns, err := Unknowns(ctx, state.Raw, r.resourceType.tfToCfNameMap)
@@ -814,14 +816,6 @@ func (r *resource) populateUnknownValues(ctx context.Context, state *tfsdk.State
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	id, err := r.getId(ctx, state)
-
-	if err != nil {
-		diags.Append(ResourceIdentifierNotFoundDiag(err))
-
-		return diags
-	}
-
 	description, err := r.describe(ctx, r.provider.CloudControlApiClient(ctx), id)
 
 	if tfresource.NotFound(err) {