diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/cloudstack.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/cloudstack.py
index 79196fbb82..55c3b02be8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/cloudstack.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/cloudstack.py
@@ -235,12 +235,16 @@ class AnsibleCloudStack(object):
             self.module.fail_json(msg="No VPCs available.")
 
         for v in vpcs['vpc']:
-            if vpc in [v['displaytext'], v['name'], v['id']]:
-                self.vpc = v
-                return self._get_by_key(key, self.vpc)
+            if vpc in [v['name'], v['displaytext'], v['id']]:
+                # Fail if the identifyer matches more than one VPC
+                if self.vpc:
+                    self.module.fail_json(msg="More than one VPC found with the provided identifyer '%s'" % vpc)
+                else:
+                    self.vpc = v
+        if self.vpc:
+            return self._get_by_key(key, self.vpc)
         self.module.fail_json(msg="VPC '%s' not found" % vpc)
 
-
     def is_vm_in_vpc(self, vm):
         for n in vm.get('nic'):
             if n.get('isdefault', False):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/cloudstack/cs_vpc.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/cloudstack/cs_vpc.py
index a396e3a1f4..67efbe00a6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/cloudstack/cs_vpc.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/cloudstack/cs_vpc.py
@@ -260,9 +260,12 @@ class AnsibleCloudStackVpc(AnsibleCloudStack):
         if vpcs:
             vpc_name = self.module.params.get('name')
             for v in vpcs['vpc']:
-                if vpc_name.lower() in [v['name'].lower(), v['id']]:
-                    self.vpc = v
-                    break
+                if vpc_name in [v['name'], v['displaytext'], v['id']]:
+                    # Fail if the identifyer matches more than one VPC
+                    if self.vpc:
+                        self.module.fail_json(msg="More than one VPC found with the provided identifyer '%s'" % vpc_name)
+                    else:
+                        self.vpc = v
         return self.vpc
 
     def restart_vpc(self):