In a typical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud computing deployment, the web app’s back-end is architected as a set of cloud services accessible through an API.

Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs): JWTs are publicly available for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This can be used for authentication and secure information exchange.

So there is evidently a difference between a (software) product and a platform – and there is evidently a new definition of what we should consider a technology platform to be.