Shouldn't it at least be mentioned in the announcement that the french government can pretty much ask Amazon for any of your data without a warrant. Or is the situation better than a year ago?
EDIT: Warrant is apparently needed as noplay said.
But it's probably not a good idea to host in France if you have not reason to do that. Like NSA, french secret service just don't care about laws. But if you target french customer that's good news you have one more alternative for hosting without trouble with regulation about data.
The last extension is effective since 2016-07-26 and is supposed to last 6 months.
I guess "government" interprets to different things in different countries, what I wrote above is a very american viewpoint.
In my country (SE), a member of government can be relieved of her duties if she even mentions that an agency should act in a certain way (as the government only should make up policies and not interfere in the daily businesses of the agencies).