creates the Streams client and sets the endpoint information for the client. 
This overload of setEndpoint also includes the service name and region. 
Set serviceName to kinesis.

client = new AmazonKinesisClient();
client.setEndpoint(endpoint, serviceName, regionId);

Now that you have created your Streams client, you can create a stream to work with, which you can accomplish with the Streams console, or programmatically. To create a stream programmatically, instantiate a CreateStreamRequest object and specify a name for the stream and the number of shards for the stream to use.

CreateStreamRequest createStreamRequest = new CreateStreamRequest();
createStreamRequest.setStreamName( myStreamName );
createStreamRequest.setShardCount( myStreamSize );