You will need to have the following prerequisites for this recipe:

• You need an active AWS account. You need to follow the Getting started section in the recipes Your first AWS Lambda and Your first Lambda with AWS CLI from Chapter 1, Getting Started with Serverless Computing on AWS to set up Java, Maven, the parent project, serverless-cookbook-parent-aws-java, and AWS CLI, and may also read other notes there, including code usage guidelines, S3 bucket creation, and notes for Windows users.
• Follow the recipe Your first Kinesis data stream and create a Kinesis stream named my-first-kinesis-stream.