Edge locations play a crucial role in AWS’s content delivery network. Services like Amazon CloudFront cache content in edge locations around the world. When a user requests content that is cached in an edge location, the response comes from the nearest cache rather than the origin server, reducing latency – the time it takes for data to travel from the source to the destination. This is why the statement is true. Content that isn’t cached will still be served from the origin, but those requests are optimized by AWS’s network, often resulting in better performance compared to direct internet routing.