Here's a tidbit so you don't have to spend two hours nearly tearing out your hair like I just did.
I was receiving the following error message: Fatal error: Uncaught Aws\Ses\Exception\SesException: AWS Error Code: InvalidParameterValue, Status Code: 400, AWS Request ID: [Removed for stackoverflow], AWS Error Type: client, AWS Error Message: Missing final '@domain', User-Agent: aws-sdk-php2/2.6.6 Guzzle/3.9.1 curl/7.36.0 PHP/5.5.12
Earlier errors had shown validation taking place, (e.g. ToAddresses must be an array), so I assumed the data was validated. To a degree, I was wrong.