AWS Java SDK - Unable to find a region via the region provider chain

Question

I have 2 questions.

Number 1- I'm getting SDKClientException-Unable to find a region via the region provider chain. Why is this happening? 

public class CreateS3Bucket {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    BasicAWSCredentials creds = new BasicAWSCredentials("aws-access-key", "aws-secret-key");
    AmazonS3 s3Client = AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard().withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(creds)).build();

    Region region = Region.getRegion(Regions.US_EAST_1);
    s3Client.setRegion(region);

    try {
        String bucketName = "testBucket" + UUID.randomUUID();
        s3Client.createBucket(bucketName);
        System.out.println("Bucket Created Successfully.");

    } catch(AmazonServiceException awse) {

        System.out.println("This means that your request made it AWS S3 but got rejected");
        System.out.println("Error Message:" +awse.getMessage());
        System.out.println("Error Message:" +awse.getErrorCode());
        System.out.println("Error Message:" +awse.getErrorType());
        System.out.println("Error Message:" +awse.getRequestId());

    } catch (AmazonClientException ace) {

        System.out.println("The Amazon Client encountered an Error with network Connectivity");
        System.out.println("Error Message:" + ace.getMessage());
    }


}

Number 2- What modifications to the source code are necessary if I wish to turn it into a Lambda Function? I am aware of the roles required to develop a lambda function. I simply want to know if the code I wrote needs to be modified. The LambdaFuctionHandler class is implemented as follows:

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;

 public class LambdaFunctionHandler implements RequestHandler<String, String> {

@Override
public String handleRequest(String input, Context context) {
    context.getLogger().log("Input: " + input);


    return null;
}

}