diff --git a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/package.json b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/package.json
index 34fd5883..b2c81488 100644
--- a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/package.json
+++ b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/package.json
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     ],
     "exclude": [
       "src/third-party/**/*.ts",
-      "src/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts"
+      "src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts"
     ]
   },
   "bugs": {
diff --git a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-opentelemetry-configurator.ts b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-opentelemetry-configurator.ts
index cd261e87..34ee673f 100644
--- a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-opentelemetry-configurator.ts
+++ b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-opentelemetry-configurator.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ import { AttributePropagatingSpanProcessorBuilder } from './attribute-propagatin
 import { AwsBatchUnsampledSpanProcessor } from './aws-batch-unsampled-span-processor';
 import { AwsMetricAttributesSpanExporterBuilder } from './aws-metric-attributes-span-exporter-builder';
 import { AwsSpanMetricsProcessorBuilder } from './aws-span-metrics-processor-builder';
-import { OTLPAwsSpanExporter } from './otlp-aws-span-exporter';
+import { OTLPAwsSpanExporter } from './aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter';
 import { OTLPUdpSpanExporter } from './otlp-udp-exporter';
 import { AwsXRayRemoteSampler } from './sampler/aws-xray-remote-sampler';
 // This file is generated via `npm run compile`
diff --git a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-span-exporter/README.md b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-span-exporter/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..53eead2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-span-exporter/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# ADOT X-Ray OTLP Trace Export Configuration
+
+This guide explains how to automatically configure ADOT environment variables for exporting traces to [AWS X-Ray OTLP endpoint](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-opentelemetry.html)
+
+## Pre-requisites
+
+1. Transaction Search must be enabled in order to send spans to the Xray OTLP endpoint. See [this doc](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Transaction-Search-getting-started.html) on how to enable Transaction Search.
+
+2. Ensure the AWS role in your application environment has [AWSXRayWriteOnlyAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess.html) managed policy attached.
+
+## Environment Variables
+
+Set the following environment variables to **PROPERLY** configure trace export with SigV4 authentication:
+
+```shell
+# Set X-Ray endpoint (replace AWS_REGION with your region)
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT=https://xray.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/v1/traces
+
+# Configure OTLP export protocol
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf
+
+OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=otlp
+OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=none
+OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER=none
+OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES="service.name=<YOUR_SERVICE_NAME>"
+
+# Disable application signals (they will be generated in CloudWatch backend)
+OTEL_AWS_APPLICATION_SIGNALS_ENABLED=false
diff --git a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts
similarity index 99%
rename from aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts
rename to aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts
index 406d0bea..79828abd 100644
--- a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts
+++ b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { OTLPExporterNodeConfigBase } from '@opentelemetry/otlp-exporter-base';
 import { ProtobufTraceSerializer } from '@opentelemetry/otlp-transformer';
 import { ReadableSpan } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base';
 import { ExportResult } from '@opentelemetry/core';
-import { getNodeVersion } from './utils';
+import { getNodeVersion } from '../utils';
 
 /**
  * This exporter extends the functionality of the OTLPProtoTraceExporter to allow spans to be exported
diff --git a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/test/otlp-aws-span-exporter.test.ts b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/test/otlp-aws-span-exporter.test.ts
index 4002293c..5c95eee4 100644
--- a/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/test/otlp-aws-span-exporter.test.ts
+++ b/aws-distro-opentelemetry-node-autoinstrumentation/test/otlp-aws-span-exporter.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 // Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 import expect from 'expect';
-import { OTLPAwsSpanExporter } from '../src/otlp-aws-span-exporter';
 import * as sinon from 'sinon';
+import { OTLPAwsSpanExporter } from '../src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter';
 import * as proxyquire from 'proxyquire';
 import * as nock from 'nock';
 import { getNodeVersion } from '../src/utils';
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ if (nodeVersion >= 16) {
           return [200, ''];
         });
 
-      mockModule = proxyquire('../src/otlp-aws-span-exporter', {
+      mockModule = proxyquire('../src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter', {
         '@smithy/signature-v4': {
           SignatureV4: class MockSignatureV4 {
             sign(req: any) {
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ if (nodeVersion >= 16) {
     });
 
     it('should not inject SigV4 headers if failure to sign headers', done => {
-      const stubbedModule = proxyquire('../src/otlp-aws-span-exporter', {
+      const stubbedModule = proxyquire('../src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter', {
         '@smithy/signature-v4': {
           SignatureV4: class MockSignatureV4 {
             sign() {
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ if (nodeVersion >= 16) {
     });
 
     it('should not inject SigV4 headers if failure to retrieve credentials', done => {
-      const stubbedModule = proxyquire('../src/otlp-aws-span-exporter', {
+      const stubbedModule = proxyquire('../src/aws-span-exporter/otlp-aws-span-exporter', {
         '@aws-sdk/credential-provider-node': {
           defaultProvider: () => async () => {
             throw new Error('credentials error');