When you create an external table in Hive with an S3 location is the data transfered?

Question

When you create an external table in Hive (on Hadoop) with an Amazon S3 source location is the data transfered to the local Hadoop HDFS on:

• external table creation

Answer 1

The data is transferred to your hadoop nodes when queries (MR Jobs) access the data.
Create external table only change Hive metadata and never move actual data.