The AdWords platform is happy to announce that they have the API Sandbox ready for developers to test out and use for whatever they need to. You can find the new Sandbox page here. They will be listening and watching closely to get feedback from everyone and will change it based on what everything wants.
I’m personally not a user of sandboxes *yet*, but I will once I delve more heavily into AdWords as I’m only a light user of it right now.