diff --git a/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2.go b/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2.go
index 210627da7..c269310f1 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud"
+	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/availabilityzones"
 	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/bootfromvolume"
 	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/floatingips"
 	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/keypairs"
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ func resourceComputeInstanceV2() *schema.Resource {
 				Type:     schema.TypeString,
 				Optional: true,
 				ForceNew: true,
+				Computed: true,
 			},
 			"network": &schema.Schema{
 				Type:     schema.TypeList,
@@ -571,6 +573,21 @@ func resourceComputeInstanceV2Read(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) err
 		return err
 	}
 
+	// Build a custom struct for the availability zone extension
+	var serverWithAZ struct {
+		servers.Server
+		availabilityzones.ServerExt
+	}
+
+	// Do another Get so the above work is not disturbed.
+	err = servers.Get(computeClient, d.Id()).ExtractInto(&serverWithAZ)
+	if err != nil {
+		return CheckDeleted(d, err, "server")
+	}
+
+	// Set the availability zone
+	d.Set("availability_zone", serverWithAZ.AvailabilityZone)
+
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2_test.go b/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2_test.go
index 3665ff99d..d84c00ba8 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2_test.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2_test.go
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ func TestAccComputeV2Instance_basic(t *testing.T) {
 				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
 					testAccCheckComputeV2InstanceExists("openstack_compute_instance_v2.instance_1", &instance),
 					testAccCheckComputeV2InstanceMetadata(&instance, "foo", "bar"),
+					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
+						"openstack_compute_instance_v2.instance_1", "availability_zone", "nova"),
 				),
 			},
 		},
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/availabilityzones/results.go b/vendor/github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/availabilityzones/results.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96a6a50b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/availabilityzones/results.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package availabilityzones
+
+// ServerExt is an extension to the base Server object
+type ServerExt struct {
+	// AvailabilityZone is the availabilty zone the server is in.
+	AvailabilityZone string `json:"OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone"`
+}
+
+// UnmarshalJSON to override default
+func (r *ServerExt) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/vendor/vendor.json b/vendor/vendor.json
index 7b4ee76c0..04590607e 100644
--- a/vendor/vendor.json
+++ b/vendor/vendor.json
@@ -1530,6 +1530,12 @@
 			"revision": "0f64da0e36de86a0ca1a8f2fc1b0570a0d3f7504",
 			"revisionTime": "2017-03-10T01:59:53Z"
 		},
+		{
+			"checksumSHA1": "y49Ur726Juznj85+23ZgqMvehgg=",
+			"path": "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/availabilityzones",
+			"revision": "0f64da0e36de86a0ca1a8f2fc1b0570a0d3f7504",
+			"revisionTime": "2017-03-10T01:59:53Z"
+		},
 		{
 			"checksumSHA1": "w2wHF5eEBE89ZYlkS9GAJsSIq9U=",
 			"path": "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/compute/v2/extensions/bootfromvolume",