You should really go through the documentation (again).

Take a look at the AWS PHP SDK which would help you a lot.
A sample implementation would be something like:

<?php
require 'aws.phar';

use Aws\Common\Enum\Region;
use Aws\Ses\SesClient;


try {   
$ses = SesClient::factory(array(
  'key'    => 'YOUR_KEY',
  'secret' => 'YOUR_SECRET',
  'region' => Region::US_EAST_1
));


$ses->verifyEmailIdentity( array(
    'EmailAddress' => '[email protected]'
));

}
catch( Exception $e )
{
    echo $e->getMessage();
}

SES has email service and it is possible to quite easily check what is being sent with some external tool to sniff the requests that are being sent from your computer. On the other hand, keep in mind that if you want to do it purely using cURL, you have to also handle authentication and signing your requests before, which will create a lot of additional work.

Here you have example request syntax: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_SendEmail.html

Link for the signature (I believe that was the things that oyu were looking for) etc: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference/CommonParameters.html

Here you have the link for the endpoints: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ses.html