A business is planning to migrate from a private cloud to a public cloud. To document business continuity, which of the following should be done FIRST?

Developing a disaster recovery plan with partners/third parties is a subsequent step that relies on the previously defined SLAs to ensure the plan meets specific recovery objectives.

When moving to a public cloud, defining application-based SLAs (Service Level Agreements) is the first critical step for business continuity. These SLAs establish the required availability, performance, and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) for each application, which then guides all subsequent planning for disaster recovery, high availability, and vendor selection. Without clear SLAs, it is impossible to effectively design, implement, or evaluate business continuity strategies in the new cloud environment.

Identifying HA (High Availability) technology is a technical implementation detail that should be determined after the required availability and performance levels are established through SLAs.

Defining the scope of requirements is too broad; while important, 'application-based SLAs' directly addresses the core performance and availability requirements pertinent to business continuity that need to be defined first.