AWS DyanmoDB trigger using Lambda in JAVA

I am trying to trigger an AWS lambda function written in Java, on dynamodb stream events. Amazon has a guide for the same, using NodeJS here http://ift.tt/1DmYQ8F

The testing input for NodeJS (from the above link) looks like an SNS event, so I tried to use the corresponding SNSEvent class in Java as an input to my handler method.

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.LambdaLogger;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.SNSEvent;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.SNSEvent.SNSRecord;
import java.util.List;

public class RecomFunction {

    public void handler(SNSEvent event, Context context) {

        LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();

        List<SNSRecord> records = event.getRecords();

        if (records != null) {
            for (SNSRecord record : records) {
                if (record != null) {
                    logger.log("SNS record: " + record.getSNS().getMessage());
                }
            }
        }
    }

}

Unfortunately, record.getSNS() returns NULL resulting to a NullPointer exception

There is a related question, however a specific answer was not given: Setup DynamoDB Trigger using Lambda