diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_subnet_group.go b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_subnet_group.go
index 6da15eb18..4b410a515 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_subnet_group.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_subnet_group.go
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ func resourceAwsDbSubnetGroup() *schema.Resource {
 				Required: true,
 				ValidateFunc: func(v interface{}, k string) (ws []string, errors []error) {
 					value := v.(string)
-					if !regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9A-Za-z-]+$`).MatchString(value) {
+					if !regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9A-Za-z-_]+$`).MatchString(value) {
 						errors = append(errors, fmt.Errorf(
-							"only alphanumeric characters and hyphens allowed in %q", k))
+							"only alphanumeric characters, hyphens and underscores allowed in %q", k))
 					}
 					if len(value) > 255 {
 						errors = append(errors, fmt.Errorf(