What are the functionalities of Distributed File systems and Distributed Storage Systems?

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i'm reading cloud vendors solutions for the distributed storage systems such as Amazon Dynamo and Google Big Table.

and really confused in two terms :

what is Distrubuted file systems for in cloud ?
what is Distributed storage systems for?
what are differences of these terms and functionalities ?

if i understand these terms i will create the general architecture of the cloud vendors, any good tutorial or web page will be appreciated.

Thanks

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