diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 33f5fb0..3565b88 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,21 @@ end
 ## Usage
 
 Broadway Kafka supports connecting to Kafka broker via SASL authentication. The following sample configuration shows how `ex_aws_msk_iam_auth` plugin can be used with it.
- 
+
+A configuration of region is required if you have an intention to
+use this library in regions other than "us-east-1" (the default region).
+
+```elixir
+# config.exs
+config :ex_aws_msk_iam_auth
+  region: "us-east-2"
+
+# or in runtime.exs
+
+config :ex_aws_msk_iam_auth
+  region: System.get_env("AWS_REGION")
+```
+
 Ref: https://hexdocs.pm/broadway_kafka/BroadwayKafka.Producer.html#module-client-config-options
 
 ```elixir
diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index 6479772..a9baa40 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 import Config
 
 config :ex_aws_msk_iam_auth,
-  region: "us-east-2"
+  region: "us-east-1",
+  service: "kafka-cluster",
+  version: "2020_10_22",
+  user_agent: "msk-elixir-client",
+  # 15 minutes
+  ttl: 900
 
 import_config "#{Mix.env()}.exs"
diff --git a/lib/signed_payload_generator.ex b/lib/signed_payload_generator.ex
index 508f550..9727d76 100644
--- a/lib/signed_payload_generator.ex
+++ b/lib/signed_payload_generator.ex
@@ -8,14 +8,8 @@ defmodule SignedPayloadGenerator do
 
   @callback get_msk_signed_payload(binary(), DateTime.t(), binary(), binary()) :: binary()
 
-  # TODO: Make service, region, user_agent, version and ttl runtime configurable
-  @service "kafka-cluster"
-  @region Application.compile_env(:ex_aws_msk_iam_auth, :region, "us-east-2")
+  @required_opts ~w(service region user_agent version ttl)a
   @method "GET"
-  @version "2020_10_22"
-  @user_agent "msk-elixir-client"
-  # 15 minutes
-  @ttl 900
 
   @doc """
   Builds AWS4 signed AWS_MSK_IAM payload needed for making SASL authentication request with broker
@@ -32,13 +26,13 @@ defmodule SignedPayloadGenerator do
       :aws_signature.sign_v4_query_params(
         aws_secret_key_id,
         aws_secret_access_key,
-        @region,
-        @service,
+        config(:region),
+        config(:service),
         # Formats to {{now.year, now.month, now.day}, {now.hour, now.minute, now.second}}
         now |> NaiveDateTime.to_erl(),
         @method,
         url,
-        ttl: @ttl
+        ttl: config(:ttl)
       )
 
     url_map = :aws_signature_utils.parse_url(aws_v4_signed_query)
@@ -51,10 +45,20 @@ defmodule SignedPayloadGenerator do
     # Building rest of the payload in the format from Java reference implementation
     signed_payload =
       signed_payload
-      |> Map.put("version", @version)
+      |> Map.put("version", config(:version))
       |> Map.put("host", url_map[:host])
-      |> Map.put("user-agent", @user_agent)
+      |> Map.put("user-agent", config(:user_agent))
 
     Jason.encode!(signed_payload)
   end
+
+  defp config(key) do
+    config = Application.fetch_env!(:ex_aws_msk_iam_auth, key)
+
+    unless key in @required_opts and is_nil(config) do
+      raise "Missing required config value for the key: #{inspect(key)}"
+    end
+
+    config
+  end
 end