How to differentiate between public and private subnet in AWS VPC

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When you are starting with AWS VPC and specially when you are working with an existing VPC setup, it’s difficult to differentiate between public and private subnets. As we know, the name is just a tag in AWS, and that doesn’t make sure what it says. So many times, it turns out that the subnet that is named as private isn’t actually private.